Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
The Capacity to Work at Older Ages
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
The Capacity to Work at Older Ages
About This Book
In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security programs and labor force participation, Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages explores people's capacity to work beyond the current retirement age. It brings together an international team of scholars from twelve countriesâBelgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Statesâto analyze this issue. Contributors find that manyâbut not allâindividuals have substantial capacity to work at older ages. However, they also consider how policymakers might divide gains in life expectancy between years of work and retirement, as well as the main impediments to longer work life. They consider factors that influence the demand for older workers, as well as the evolution of health and disability status, which may affect labor supply from the older population.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
- 2. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Canada
- 3. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark
- 4. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
- 5. Healthy, Happy, and Idle: Estimating the Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Germany
- 6. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Italy
- 7. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Japan
- 8. Work Capacity at Older Ages in the Netherlands
- 9. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from Spain
- 10. Health, Work Capacity, and Retirement in Sweden
- 11. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from the United Kingdom
- 12. Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence from the United States
- Notes
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index