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Understanding the Aging Workforce - Defining a Research Agenda (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Committee on Population, Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages; Edited by …
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The aging population of the United States has significant
implications for the workforce - challenging what it means to work
and to retire in the U.S. In fact, by 2030, one-fifth of the
population will be over age 65. This shift has significant
repercussions for the economy and key social programs. Due to
medical advancements and public health improvements, recent cohorts
of older adults have experienced better health and increasing
longevity compared to earlier cohorts. These improvements in health
enable many older adults to extend their working lives. While
higher labor market participation from this older workforce could
soften the potential negative impacts of the aging population over
the long term on economic growth and the funding of Social Security
and other social programs, these trends have also occurred amidst a
complicating backdrop of widening economic and social inequality
that has meant that the gains in health, improvements in mortality,
and access to later-life employment have been distributed
unequally. Understanding the Aging Workforce: Defining a Research
Agenda offers a multidisciplinary framework for conceptualizing
pathways between work and nonwork at older ages. This report
outlines a research agenda that highlights the need for a better
understanding of the relationship between employers and older
employees; how work and resource inequalities in later adulthood
shape opportunities in later life; and the interface between work,
health, and caregiving. The research agenda also identifies the
need for research that addresses the role of workplaces in shaping
work at older ages, including the role of workplace policies and
practices and age discrimination in enabling or discouraging older
workers to continue working or retire. Table of Contents Front
Matter Summary 1 Introduction Part I 2 The Emerging Older Workforce
3 Work and Retirement Pathways Part II 4 Individual and Social
Factors That Influence Employment and Retirement Transitions 5
Workplace and Job Factors 6 Age Discrimination, One Source of
Inequality 7 The Labor Market for Older Workers 8 Public Policy
Part III 9 A Research Agenda to Promote Understanding of Employment
among Older Workers References Appendix A: Meeting Agendas Appendix
B: Committee Biosketches
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High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults (Paperback)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Committee on Population, Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities; Edited by …
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The past century has witnessed remarkable advances in life
expectancy in the United States and throughout the world. In 2010,
however, progress in life expectancy in the United States began to
stall, despite continuing to increase in other high-income
countries. Alarmingly, U.S. life expectancy fell between 2014 and
2015 and continued to decline through 2017, the longest sustained
decline in life expectancy in a century (since the influenza
pandemic of 1918-1919). The recent decline in U.S. life expectancy
appears to have been the product of two trends: (1) an increase in
mortality among middle-aged and younger adults, defined as those
aged 25-64 years (i.e., "working age"), which began in the 1990s
for several specific causes of death (e.g., drug- and
alcohol-related causes and suicide); and (2) a slowing of declines
in working-age mortality due to other causes of death (mainly
cardiovascular diseases) after 2010. High and Rising Mortality
Rates among Working Age Adults highlights the crisis of rising
premature mortality that threatens the future of the nation's
families, communities, and national wellbeing. This report
identifies the key drivers of increasing death rates and
disparities in working-age mortality over the period 1990 to 2017;
elucidates modifiable risk factors that could alleviate poor health
in the working-age population, as well as widening health
inequalities; identifies key knowledge gaps and make
recommendations for future research and data collection to fill
those gaps; and explores potential policy implications. After a
comprehensive analysis of the trends in working-age mortality by
age, sex, race/ethnicity, and geography using the most up-to-date
data, this report then looks upstream to the macrostructural
factors (e.g., public policies, macroeconomic trends, social and
economic inequality, technology) and social determinants (e.g.,
socioeconomic status, environment, social networks) that may affect
the health of working-age Americans in multiple ways and through
multiple pathways. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary PART I 1
Introduction 2 U.S. Mortality in an International Context 3 U.S.
Trends in All-Cause Mortality Among Working-Age Adults 4 U.S.
Trends in Cause-Specific Mortality Among Working-Age Adults 5 U.S.
Mortality Data: Data Quality, Methodology, and Recommendations PART
II 6 A Framework for Developing Explanations of Working-Age
Mortality Trends 7 Opioids, Other Drugs, and Alcohol 8 Suicide 9
Cardiometabolic Diseases 10 The Relationship Between Economic
Factors and Mortality PART III 11 Implications for Policy and
Research References Appendix A: Mortality Data Analyses: Review
Process and Detailed Mortality Rate Tables Appendix B: Meeting
Agendas Appendix C: Biographical Sketches
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