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Social Security and the Age of Retirement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Unlike a century ago, people expect their children to live past the age of retirement. This fact has important implications for how workers save for retirement, but has no specific implications for the retirement portion of Social Security.
David Rosnick
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Estimating marginal cohort working life expectancies from sequential cross-sectional survey data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article applies recently developed health expectancy methodologies to estimate the average duration of future work life in different states of work ability.
Davis, B. A   +2 more
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Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In theory, improvements in healthy life expectancy should generate increases in the average age of retirement, with little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent retirement ages from
Bloom, David E   +3 more
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Trends in life expectancy and age-specific mortality in England and Wales, 1970–2016, in comparison with a set of 22 high-income countries: an analysis of vital statistics data

open access: yesThe Lancet Public Health, 2019
Summary: Background: Since 2010, the rate of improvement in life expectancy in the UK has slowed. We aimed to put this trend in the context of changes over the long term and in relation to a group of other high-income countries. Methods: We compared sex-
David A Leon, ProfPhD   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Losing ground--Swedish life expectancy in a comparative perspective. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: In the beginning of the 1970s, Sweden was the country where both women and men enjoyed the world's longest life expectancy. While life expectancy continues to be high and increasing, Sweden has been losing ground in relation to other leading ...
Sven Drefahl, Anders Ahlbom, Karin Modig
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in working life expectancy with disability in the Netherlands, 1992–2016

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019
OBJECTIVES: Like other western countries, the Netherlands has abolished early retirement schemes and is currently increasing the statutory retirement age. It is likely that also older workers with disabilities will be required to work longer.
Maaike van der Noordt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The greying church: the impact of life expectancy on religiosity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Purpose: In recent years, there has been an expanding literature on the socio-economic determinants of religiosity. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this stream of the literature by studying the impact of life expectancy on religiosity ...
Papyrakis, E., Selvaretnam, G.
core   +1 more source

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries inhealth outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007.
Badi H. Baltagi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Health Status, Functional Limitations and Disability: Changes in Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities.
Golinowska, Stanislawa, Sowa, Agnieszka
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Is age‐related sarcopenia a real concern for my developing country?

open access: yesJournal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022
Ageing is a distinctive feature of living organisms. With the modernization of human societies, including the development of science, technology and education, expected life expectancy at birth is being extended.
Arben Boshnjaku
doaj   +1 more source

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