ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Cohort Trends in Working Life Expectancies at Age 50 in the United States: A Register-Based Study Using Social Security Administration Data.
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- Trends in Working Life Expectancy and Untapped Employment Potential in an Ageing Population: The Case of Germany.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2026Article
- Healthy working life expectancy across birth cohorts in the United States.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic differences in working life expectancy: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Trends of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy in Germany between 2001 and 2020 at ages 50 and 60: a question of educational level?Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
- Care Life Expectancy: Gender and Unpaid Work in the Context of Population Aging.Population research and policy review · 2022Article
- Indicators and determinants of the years of working life lost: a narrative review.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2021Review
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objectivesLittle is known about the length of working life, even though it is a key indicator for policy-makers. In this paper, we study how the length of working life at age 50 has developed in the United States from a cohort perspective.
methodsWe use a large longitudinal sample of U.S. Social Security register data that covers close to 1.7 million individuals of the cohorts born from 1920 to 1965. For all of these cohorts, we study the employment trajectories and working life expectancy (WLE) at age 50 by gender and nativity (native-born/foreign-born). For the cohorts with employment trajectories that are only incompletely observed, we borrow information from older cohorts to predict their WLE.
resultsThe length of working life has been increasing for the native-born males and females, and the younger cohorts worked longer than the older cohorts. However, WLE might soon peak, and then stall. The gap in WLE between the native-born and the foreign-born has increased over time, although latter group might be able to catch up in the coming years. DISCUSSION: Our findings show that studying employment from a cohort perspective reveals crucial information about patterns of working life. The future development of the length of working life should be a major concern for policy-makers.
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