McLaughlin Joanne Song, Neumark David
1 Department of Economics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
2 Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Res Aging. 2018 Mar;40(3):232-256. doi: 10.1177/0164027517697114. Epub 2017 Apr 11.
Policy changes intended to delay retirements of older workers and extend their work lives may run up against barriers owing to rising physical challenges of work as people age. We examine whether physical challenges at work influence employment transitions of older male workers in the age range for which public policy is trying to extend work lives and whether older male workers are able to mitigate these challenges while still remaining employed. The evidence indicates that physical challenges pose a barrier to extending work lives, although some older male workers with physically demanding jobs are able to mitigate these demands-either at new jobs or with the same employer. Our findings suggest that greater accommodation of physical challenges faced by older workers would likely increase the success of policies intended to induce later retirement.
旨在推迟老年工人退休并延长其工作年限的政策变化，可能会因人们年龄增长导致工作中的身体挑战增加而遇到障碍。我们研究工作中的身体挑战是否会影响公共政策试图延长工作年限的年龄段内老年男性工人的就业转变，以及老年男性工人在继续就业的同时是否能够减轻这些挑战。证据表明，身体挑战对延长工作年限构成了障碍，尽管一些从事体力要求高的工作的老年男性工人能够在新工作中或与同一雇主合作时减轻这些要求。我们的研究结果表明，更好地应对老年工人面临的身体挑战可能会提高旨在促使延迟退休的政策的成功率。
