Work, Health, and Income Among the Elderly
1st Edition
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276 pages
978-0-8157-1967-0 (ISBN)
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-1967-0 (9780815719670)
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Gary Burtless
Work, Health, and Income Among the Elderly
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01/1987
Brookings Institution
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction and Summary
- Declining Old-Age Mortality and the Health of the Aged
- Aging and the Ability to Work
- Occupational Effects on Health and Work Capacity
- Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption
- Time-Series Analysis of the Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply
- The Adequacy of Life Insurance among the Elderly
- Public Policy Implications of Declining Old-Age Mortality
- Mortality Trends among the Aged
- A Formal Model of Mortality Reductions
- Evidence on Changing Morbidity and Health Needs
- Microeconometric Evidence
- Conclusions
- Comment
- Aging and the Ability to Work: Policy Issues and Recent Trends
- Analytical Issues in Health and Retirement
- Trends in Mortality and Retirement
- Recent Trends in Health and Ability to Work
- Additional Evidence on Health and the Ability to Work
- Changes in the Nature of Employment
- Interpreting the Evidence
- Directions for Retirement Policy
- Comment
- Occupational Effects on the Health and Work Capacity of Older Men
- Industry, Occupation, and Work Capacity
- Self-reported Health Impairment and Work Status
- Summary
- Comment
- Involuntary Early Retirement and Consumption
- The Data Set
- Characteristics of Retirement and Food Consumption
- Food Consumption over Time
- Conclusions
- Comment
- Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Social Security: A Time-Series Analysis
- Trends in Labor Supply and Social Security since World War II
- Life-Cycle Labor Supply, Social Security, and the Identification Problem
- Data and Empirical Implementation
- Results
- Summary
- Appendix: Algorithm for Computation of Social Security Wealth
- Comment
- Life Insurance of the Elderly: Its Adequacy and Determinant
- The Adequacy of Life Insurance: A Conceptual Framework
- A Model of Life Insurance Demand
- Econometric Specification
- Empirical Results
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Derivation of the Bivariate Mills Ratio Sample Selection Correction
- Conference Participants
- Index
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