Why have the labor force participation rates of older men increased since the mid-1990s?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schirle, Tammy
• 署名单位: Wilfrid Laurier University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/589457
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 549-594
• 关键词: Retirement; ECONOMICS; career; HEALTH; women; POWER; pill

摘要

This article seeks to explain the substantial increases in older men's labor force participation rates observed since the mid-1990s. Using data from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, I exploit the cohort effects driving recent increases in older women's participation rates to identify the effect of a wife's participation decision on her husband's participation decision. I then decompose the changes in older married men's participation rates, demonstrating that husbands' responses to increases in wives' participation in the labor force can explain one-fourth, one-half, and one-third of the increase in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, respectively.