The health and capacity to work of older men and women in Canada

Tammy Schirle Kevin Milligan ()
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Tammy Schirle Kevin Milligan: Wilfrid Laurier University
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LCERPA Working Papers from Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis

Abstract: We address the health capacity to work among Canadian older workers using two complementary methods, aggregate mortality risk and individual health indicators. We find that men in 2012 would need to work more than five additional years between ages 55-69 to keep pace with how much men in 1976 worked, holding health capacity constant. For working women, the comparable result is only two years more work. Most of these gaps arose before the mid-1990s, as employment advances have offset mortality improvements since then. Regionally, more than half the Ontario-Atlantic employment difference among older men is rooted in health differences.

Keywords: Health; retirement; labour supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J21 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12-01, Revised 2016-12-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-dem and nep-hea
Note: LCERPA Working Paper No. 2016-3
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