Title

Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce

Year

2001

Abstract

The chapters explore implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.

Contents

  1. Editors' Introduction / Peter P. Budetti, Richard V. Burkhauser, Janice M. Gregory, and H. Allan Hunt
  2. Health Insurance Coverage of People in the Ten Years before Medicare Eligibility / Katherine Schwartz, Betsey Stevenson
  3. Workers' Compensation and Older Workers / John F. Burton, Jr., Emily A. Spieler
  4. Unemployment Compensation and Older Workers / Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
  5. Getting Older in the 21st Century / Mark V. Nadel
  6. Social Insurance and the Older Worker / Robert Haveman
  7. Commentary / Walter B. Maher
  8. Commentary / David A. Smith
  9. Effects of Job Loss on Older Workers / Sewin Chan, Ann Huff Stevens
  10. Effect of a Job Loss on the Employment Experience, Benefits, and Retirement Savings of Bank Officers / Jill S. Quadagno, David A. Macpherson, Jennifer Reid Keene
  11. Extending Health Insurance Coverage for Older Workers and Early Retirees / Karen Pollitz
  12. Commentary / Katherine Swartz
  13. Permanent Partial Disability from Occupational Injuries / Jeff E. Biddle, Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville
  14. How Working-Age People with Disabilities Fared over the 1990s Business Cycle / Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Andrew J. Houtenville
  15. Health, Disability and the Aging Workforce from the Employer's Perspective / Bruce G. Flynn
  16. Commentary / Vicki Gottlich and Patricia Nemore
  17. Commentary / Barbara Wolfe
  18. Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans / Anna Rappaport
  19. Living Longer, but Able to Work? / Glenn Pransky
  20. Commentary / Tereas Ghilarducci
  21. Policy Options for Filling Gaps in the Health Insurance Coverage of Older Workers and Early Retirees / Len M. Nichols
    22. Commentary / Deborah Chollet
  22. Commentary / Frank McArdle
  23. Commentary / Diane Rowland

Note

Based on the National Academy of Social Insurance's 12th annual conference, held Jan. 26-27, 2000 in Washington, D.C.

Sponsorship

National Academy of Social Insurance (U.S.). Conference

ISBN

9780880992190 (pbk.) ; 9780880992206 (cloth)

Subject Areas

EMPLOYMENT and COMPENSATION; Retirement and pensions; Retiree health benefits; Retirement decisions; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Unemployment insurance; Workers compensation and disability; Disability