Will the Average Retirement Age Continue to Increase?

Will life expectancy continue to increase or level off? Weighing the arguments of optimists and pessimists

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Where are we going with drugs to treat MS? Will cost continue to increase?

Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers? This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-se...

Will the future continue to repeat the past?

A cross different healthcare systems worldwide, published reports of inquiries into serious incidents urge that the lessons that emerge must be learnt and that such incidents should not happen again. But they do. The lessons, it seems, are rarely learnt and the perception is that health services are not trying hard enough—if at all. 2 While it might appear straightforward, in reality not only a...

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis made good on her brash announcement that “there‟s a new sheriff in town” by choosing David Michaels as her Assistant Secretary for OSHA, and Jordan Barab as his Deputy Assistant. Both are mounting a national posse to round up and hang employers. Michaels hit the ground running, calling for – among other things – increased penalties and more aggressive enforcement ...