Tag: unemployment
Abstract This paper explores the extent to which health, employment, family, or finances are associated with earlier-than-planned retirement using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The importance of any shock that drives early retirement depends both on its effect on those experiencing it and its prevalence in the population; therefore, the analysis proceeds in two…
The brief’s key findings are: State and local government employment dropped sharply during the Great Recession, unlike in previous recessions, and continues to decline even today. But this decline in public sector employment was less severe than that experienced by the private sector. Being a state/local worker reduced the probability of job loss by 2 percentage points,…
