Tag: Social Security benefit
Abstract We use Health and Retirement Study data linked to the Department of Labor’s O*Net classification system to examine the relationship between lifetime exposure to occupational demands and retirement behavior. We consistently found that both non-routine cognitive analytic and non-routine physical demands were associated with worse health, earlier labor force exit, and increased use of…
The brief’s key findings are: Some have advocated investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities. A similar proposal adopted by the railroads in 2001 suggests two key hurdles: political risk and financial risk. For political risk, the railroads created an independent trust; a better fit for Social Security might be to limit investments to…
