Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians

Abstract

We construct cohort working life tables for Canadian men and women aged 50 and older and, for comparison, corresponding

Working Life and Retirement Expectancies at Age 50 by Social Class: Period and Cohort Trends and Projections for Finland

“…Time spent in work and its share of the total life years have been addressed through the calculation of working life expectancies. Terminology regarding the expected remaining work years at a given age have been used somewhat ambiguously referring to the time spent either in employment (Nurminen et al 2005;Millimet et al 2010;Nurminen 2012) or in the labor force (Hayward & Grady 1990;Denton et al 2010). In this study the concept of work is used to refer to being in paid employment and belonging to the labor force to an economically active status, i.e.…”

“…Moreover, Finnish findings indicate that there was a sharp decline in the working life expectancy in the first half of the 1990s (Hytti & Nio 2004;Nurminen et al 2005), but the trend is likely to have been similar also in other countries experiencing the economic recession. More recently working life (Hytti & Nio 2004;Vogler-Ludwig 2009;Nurminen 2012) and labor force (Hytti & Valaste 2009;Denton et al 2010) expectancies have begun to increase in many Western countries. These increases have been larger for women who have originally had lower employment participation than men (Vogler-Ludwig 2009;Denton et al 2010;Nurminen 2012).…”

“…More recently working life (Hytti & Nio 2004;Vogler-Ludwig 2009;Nurminen 2012) and labor force (Hytti & Valaste 2009;Denton et al 2010) expectancies have begun to increase in many Western countries. These increases have been larger for women who have originally had lower employment participation than men (Vogler-Ludwig 2009;Denton et al 2010;Nurminen 2012). In Finland women's employment has been relatively high, and since the second half of the 2000s working life expectancy at age 50 has actually been higher for women than for men (Nurminen 2012).…”

“…This approach is sensitive to short-term variation in the mortality and participation rates, which may be good or bad depending on the goal of the analysis. The focus on periods is often motivated by the difficulty of obtaining longitudinal data that would be suitable for cohort analysis and by the challenges related to forecasting, or completing information for partially observed cohorts (Vogler-Ludwig 2009: Denton et al 2010Nurminen 2012). The cohort perspective describes the life course experience of a real birth cohort, and is arguably more natural than the period perspective.…”

The Length of Working Life in Russia: Trends and Differentials

“…During the 1940s-1980s, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the United States Department of Labor, was considered to be a trendsetter in this regard: the Bureau developed a standard method for working life table construction which was later used in other countries and international organisations (Durand, 1948;Fullerton, 1972;Garfinkle, 1963;Smith, 1982;Wolfbein, 1949). Nowadays, studies on working life expectancy have been conducted for the United States (Dudel & Myrskylä, 2017;Hayward & Grady, 1990;Millimet et al, 2010Millimet et al, , 2003Skoog & Ciecka, 2010;Smith, 1986), Finland (Leinonen et al, 2015;Nurminen, 2012;Nurminen et al, 2005), Great Britain (Butt et al, 2008;Haberman & Bloom, 1990), Netherlands (Liefbroer & Henkens, 1999), Denmark (Hoem, 1977), Canada (Denton et al, 2010), Spain (Dudel et al, 2018) etc. Since 2014 the working life expectancy has been included into the official reports of the EU Member States as an indicator for analysis and monitoring under the Europe 2020 employment strategy.…”