Motley D K
Soc Secur Bull. 1978 Apr;41(4):18-29.
The increase in the proportion of retirees in the population has given rise to concern that the financial burden on workers could become onerous. Consequently, considerable interest has developed in encouraging workers to delay retirement until age 65 and beyond. The effectiveness of programs to accomplish this objective would be enahnced by knowledge of the reasons for early retirement and the characteristics of those who have retired. On the basis of three waves of longitudinal data from the Retirement History Study, an availability measure has been constructed to provide estimates of how many recent retirees would be likely, given the opportunity, to return to work. Incorporating information on perceived income adequacy and work attitudes, the measure is applied in this article to men and women aged 62 to 67 in 1973 who had retired since 1969. An initial screening to determine those with work limitations removed half the retirees from consideration, and the measure indicates that relatively few of those remaining would have been readily available to return to work.
退休人员在人口中所占比例的增加引发了人们对工人经济负担可能变得繁重的担忧。因此，在鼓励工人将退休年龄推迟到65岁及以后方面，人们产生了浓厚的兴趣。了解提前退休的原因以及退休人员的特征，将提高实现这一目标的计划的有效性。基于退休历史研究的三轮纵向数据，构建了一种可获得性衡量方法，以估计有多少近期退休人员在有机会的情况下可能重返工作岗位。该衡量方法纳入了关于感知收入充足性和工作态度的信息，本文将其应用于1973年年龄在62至67岁之间、自1969年以来已退休的男性和女性。通过初步筛选确定那些有工作限制的人，从而将一半的退休人员排除在考虑范围之外，该衡量方法表明，剩下的人中相对较少的人会很容易重返工作岗位。
