Older Americans Would Work Longer if Jobs Were Flexible

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ameriks, John; Briggs, Joseph; Caplin, Andrew; Lee, Minjoon; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Tonetti, Christopher
• 署名单位: The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors; New York University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Carleton University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Stanford University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7707
• DOI: 10.1257/mac.20170403
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 174-209
• 关键词: retiree health-insurance; social-security; employment behavior; preference; wages; Heterogeneity; constraints; elasticity; WORKPLACE; patterns

摘要

Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work, especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job opportunities or low expectations about finding them than by unwillingness to work longer. This paper establishes these findings using an approach to identification based on strategic survey questions, purposefully designed to complement behavioral data. These findings suggest that demand-side factors are important in explaining late-in-life labor market behavior and need to be considered in designing policies aimed at promoting working longer.