Year: 2018
Type: report
Abstract: Physical and cognitive abilities of older workers decline with age, which can cause a mismatch between abilities and job demands, potentially leading to early retirement.We link longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data to O*NET occupational characteristics to estimate to what extent changes in workers' physical and cognitive resources change their work-limiting health problems, mental health, subjective probabilities of retirement, and labor market status.While we find that physical and cognitive decline strongly predict all outcomes, only the interaction between large-muscle resources and job demands is statistically significant, implying a strong mismatch at older ages in jobs requiring large-muscle strength.The effects of declines in fine motor skills and cognition are not statistically different across differing occupational job demands.
DOI: 10.3386/w25229
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Michigan
OpenAlex ID: W2899601074