MOVING IN AND OUT OF WORK IN THE 50S 60S AND 70S: AN INTERSECTIONAL SHORT-TERM ANALYSIS OF DISPARITIES IN PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED STATES

摘要

Most later life labor force exit/retirement research considers annual or biennial, not monthly, continuity and change and investigates variables rather than person-centered pathways in work participation over a period of months. We capitalize on massive micro-level panel data in the Current Population Survey (CPS) over the 10 years from 2008 through 2018 to examine disparities in biographical pacing --the timing, duration, and sequencing of remaining in or out of employment, or transitioning out of or into employment over a 16-month period. We have CPS data on hundreds of thousands of Americans ages 50 to 79, most of whom are Boomers. This is, to our knowledge, the first populated-based study specifically addressing associations between intersecting social locations and short-term continuities and changes (over eight time points across a 16-month period) in labor force participation, permitting the capture of the dynamics of work and labor market exits at the micro-level.