In this paper, I examine leisure complementarities in the joint retirement decisions of couples by quantifying effect 2011 Norwegian pension reform. The reform abolished an earnings test on early benefits for private-sector workers, but not public-sector workers. analyze population-wide registry data labor market participation, and consider where focal partner works public sector with a spouse ...

This paper studies the role of health insurance in the retirement decisions of older workers. As policymakers consider mechanisms for how to increase access to affordable health insurance for the near elderly, considerations of the potential labor force implications of such policies will be important to consider--potentially inducing retirements just at a time when the labor force is shrinking....

conclusions health providers should improve the qol in the elderly by facilitating hpl through health-promoting interventions, which will maintain and increase physical activity, stress management, and spiritual growth. background as individuals live a longer life, health-promoting lifestyle (hpl) becomes even more essential, particularly with regard to maintaining functional independence and i...

Many have suggested we adopt policies that explicitly encourage the elderly to work. Behind this suggestion is the assumption that if an older person desires a job, one will be found; however, little is known about the extent to which this is true, and in the Health and Retirement Study, many more respondents say they expect to work after retirement than actually undertake work. This raises an ...

As the baby boom cohort nears retirement age, the question of how to provide necessary health care and personal services to a growing elderly population has become a looming policy problem. Beginning in 2020, the number of Americans over the age of 65 will surpass the number of primary providers of formal and informal long-term care (women between the ages of 20 and 44). Perceptions of shortage...

Purpose – This paper seeks to promote an understanding of gender effects on retirement plan participation as a function of fund assortment size. Design/methodology/approach – A decision simulation was conducted among 349 US adults whose task was to invest in a hypothetical 401(k) retirement plan. The number of mutual funds offered for investment was varied and the effects on the incidence and e...

Two common assertions about leisure activities in retirement housing were studied: ( I ) that residence in special retirement housing for the elderly will result in more leisure activities than will residence in conventional dispersed housing, and (2) that greater participation in leisure activities is associated with a more favorable outlook on life. Two waves of interviews were conducted with...

There has been a dramatic decline in labor force participation of older men since the early 1970s. A large literature evaluates the potential contribution of changes in pension benefits, health, wealth, and retirement preferences to explaining these trends. Yet, during the same period there have been important developments in the United States labor market, such as changes in industry decomposi...

access to development and life quality improvement are ideals that all the time has involved human’s mind. nowadays development phenomenon besides economic programs contains cultural and social subject. one of the important subjects in development part is women's issues. in these days, even though trend to women's issues in new approaches of development has increased, but in many coun...