The age pattern of retirement a comparison of cohort measures

Denton, Frank T. 1930- (Author). Finnie, Ross. (Added Author). Spencer, Byron G., 1941- (Added Author). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm) (Added Author). Coherent Digital (Firm) (Added Author). McMaster University. SEDAP Research Program. (Added Author).

Summary: Measures of retirement that take a cohort perspective are appealing since retirement patterns may change, and it would be useful to have consistent measures that would make it possible to compare retirement patterns over time and between countries or regions. We propose and implement two measures. One is based on administrative income tax records and relates to actual cohorts; the other is based on a time-series of cross sectional labour force surveys and relates to pseudo-cohorts. We conclude that while the tax-based observations for actual cohorts provide a richer data set for analysis, the estimated measures of retirement and transition from work to retirement based on the two data sets are quite similar.

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Physical Description: 1 electronic text (19 p.) : col. ill., digital file.
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Publisher: Hamilton, Ont. : SEDAP Research Program, McMaster University, 2011

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General Note:	"June 2011." "SEDAP a program for research on Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population." CatMonthString:january.23 Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. Multi-User.
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Language Note:	Abstract in English and French.
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