PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anek Belbase
AU  - Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher
AU  - Christopher M. Gillis
TI  - Beyond Blue and White Collar: <em>Age-Related Decline, Occupation, and Retirement Timing</em>
AID  - 10.3905/jor.2017.5.2.026
DP  - 2017 Oct 31
TA  - The Journal of Retirement
PG  - 26--41
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
4099  - https://pm-research.com/content/5/2/26.short
4100  - https://pm-research.com/content/5/2/26.full
AB  - Retirement timing research has accounted for age-related decline in ability to work by classifying occupations as blue or white collar, but this rough categorization may throw out information. Instead, this article presents a susceptibility index that measures how susceptible the abilities required by an occupation are to early decline. The results suggest that (1) considerable variance exists, especially within white-collar occupations, in the importance of abilities that are known to show early decline; (2) this variance, as captured by the index, is predictive of early retirement; and (3) this variance captures more information than the common white- and blue-collar distinction.TOPICS: Retirement, legal/regulatory/public policy, statistical methods