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Title: Work Patterns of Women Near Retirement
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Work Patterns of Women Near Retirement Work and Family, Report 830. Washington DC: US Department of Labor, 1992. Also: http://stats.bls.gov/pdf/nlswk004.pdf Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Labor Force Participation; Retirement/Retirement Planning; Women; Work Experience This report examines the labor market activity of older married women using data from the Mature Women's cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS). The survey provides the first adequate data for analyzing women's retirement behavior. The data provide information on a sample of women who were between the ages of 30 and 45 in 1967 and have been interviewed regularly since then. The analysis focuses on the years 1967-89, a period in which the age range of these women changed from 39-54 to 52-67. This time span and these age ranges provide an opportunity to capture the transition from work to retirement among women. Interviews were not conducted and data, therefore, are not available for the years 1978, 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1987. Respondents who did not work at all between 1976 and 1989 are excluded from the analysis, so that only the retirement decisions of women with some work experience over this period are considered. Two questions concerning the work patterns of these women as they approach retirement are addressed. First, are there significant differences in the work trends of older married women and older single women? Second, what is the relationship between the labor market activity of wives and husbands in their later years? |
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Bureau of Labor Statistics. Work Patterns of Women Near Retirement. Work and Family, Report 830. Washington DC: US Department of Labor, 1992.. |