Unretirement

Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements

• February 15, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

We conduct a series of stated preference experiments to determine the willingness of hiring and human resource managers to pay for certain job attributes. A cross section of U.S. hiring managers were given experimental vignettes about an existing employee or…

Job Demands, Time Use, and the Timing of Retirement

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Retirement, Unretirement

A large body of research examines the role of job demands in determining the timing of retirement, with mixed findings. However, this research does not account for the potential sorting of individuals into jobs with different demands and examines work…

Money isn’t everything—at least for older workers

• October 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Uncategorized, Unretirement

In 2015, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Jeffrey Wenger, and Till von Wachtner fielded two surveys. One asked respondents about their working conditions; the second asked about their preferences for certain job characteristics. The nine working conditions were…

Understanding Job Transitions and Retirement Expectations Using Stated Preferences for Job Characteristics

• April 8, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Older workers, Retirement, Second career, Unretirement

As the population ages in the United States and other countries, encouraging older individuals to work would help counter increasing dependency ratios and improve national economic outcomes. Extending working lives is likely not simply a function of improving monetary incentives.…

Laboring longer: Second careers, unretirement, and bridge jobs keep older Americans at work

• August 22, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Second career, Unretirement

Brooke Helppie-McFall and Amanda Sonnega’s paper, “Characteristics of Second-career Occupations: A Review and Synthesis,” untangles the differences between career employment, second careers or re-careering, encore careers, bridge employment, and unretirement. The researchers define “second career employment as employment after leaving…

Longer Work Key Findings, 2014-2018

• August 15, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Older workers, Second career, Unretirement

Characteristics of Second-career Occupations: A Review and Synthesis

• June 14, 2018
• Older workers, Second career, Unretirement

This study is a literature review of research related to the characteristics of second careers undertaken after mid-life. There is a significant lack of literature directly on this topic, so we draw substantially from the literatures about retirement, bridge jobs,…

Characteristics of Second-career Occupations: A Review and Synthesis

• June 14, 2018
• Older workers, Second career, Unretirement

This study is a literature review of research related to the characteristics of second careers undertaken after mid-life. There is a significant lack of literature directly on this topic, so we draw substantially from the literatures about retirement, bridge jobs,…

The Impact of Health Insurance Availability on Retirement Decision Reversals

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, Retirement, Unretirement

This paper uses the longitudinal aspect of the Health and Retirement Survey to explore the characteristics associated with reversals in retirement (referred to here as “unretirement”).  Through the use of survival time analysis, this paper show that health insurance plays…