Effects of receipt of Social Security retirement benefits on older women’s employment

Labor force participation of women has declined since 1999; however, labor force participation of women 62+ has increased. The 2000–2006 waves of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data, the initial years of the continuing upward trajectory, were used to test the effects of receipt of Social Security retirement benefits on older women’s employment. The models tested: (a) the effect of receipt of Social Security retirement benefits on whether employed; and (b) for women receiving Social Security retirement benefits, the effect of age elected receipt of benefits on whether employed. Both models included the effects of human capital characteristics and income sources. Receipt of Social Security benefits, pension income, and current age reduced the likelihood of employment; while educational level, good to excellent health, and nonmarried marital status increased the likelihood of employment. The older the woman was when she elected Social Security benefits, the more likely she was to be employed.     

Nexus Between Globalization,Income Inequality and Human Development in Indonesian Economy: Evidence from Application of Partial and Multiple Wavelet Coherence

Social Indicators Research - This paper aims at understanding the vigorous connection between globalization, income inequality and human development in Indonesian economy. This study employs...     

Delayed Graduation and Overeducation in Italy: A Test of the Human Capital Model Versus the Screening Hypothesis

Social Indicators Research - Exploiting the human capital versus screening hypothesis frameworks, this paper studies the link between delayed graduation and overeducation, and their effect on...     

ICT Exposure and the Level of Wellbeing and Progress: A Cross Country Analysis

Social Indicators Research - Innovations of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have influenced human life through time-saving, diffusion of knowledge, easy communication, and...     

A Poset-Generalizability Method for Human Development Indicators

Social Indicators Research - The paper introduces a poset-generalizability perspective for analysing human development indicators. It suggests a new method for identifying admissibility of...     

Population Structure and the Human Development Index

Social Indicators Research - This paper provides an alternative way of measuring human development that takes explicitly into account the differences in the countries’ population structures....     

Linking Human Development and the Financial Responsibility of Regions: Combined Index Proposals Using Methods from Data Envelopment Analysis

Social Indicators Research - Several indicators on human development and capabilities have been introduced in recent decades that measure the absolute level of deprivations and freedoms of people....     

Does Demographic Transition with Human Capital Dynamics Matter for Economic Growth? A Dynamic Panel Data Approach to GMM

Social Indicators Research - This study seeks to empirically investigate whether demographic transition with dynamics of human capital matters for economic growth for a representative sample of...     

A Multilevel Multinomial Model for the Dynamics of Graduates Employment in Italy

Social Indicators Research - Several studies have demonstrated that skilled human capital is a key resource for the economic growth of a territory, since it helps to increase productivity,...     

Illicit Financial Flows: Another Road Block to Human Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Social Indicators Research - This article analysed the relationship between illicit financial flows (IFFs) and human development, as measured with the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI),...     

How Poor is Poor? A novel look at multidimensional poverty in the UK

Social Indicators Research - The integrated nature of well-being produces difficulty in evaluating poverty levels and one issue is the neglected of human life aspects, multiple feedback loops, and...     

Identifying the Geographic Indicators of Poverty Using Geographically Weighted Regression: A Case Study from Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture,Guizhou, China

Social Indicators Research - Poverty is a major problem that has consistently impacted human development. The spatial characteristics of poverty are nonvolatile at the regional level and represent...     

Letter to the editor: Are indicators telling us the real story about progress?

Social Indicators Research - Global politics is based on an outmoded and increasingly destructive model of human progress and development. Can science change a dire situation?     

An Integrated Analysis of Social,Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability

Social Indicators Research - Public health and health inequality have been widely researched as they are essential for human development and social justice. Although factors influencing public...     

Thriving Under Uncertainty: The Effect of Achievement Goal Orientation on Job Insecurity and Flourishing

Social Indicators Research - Flourishing, a construct encompassing optimal human functioning, is an indicator of well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects...     

Does Public Investment Promote Intergenerational Mobility? Who Really Benefits?

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Human Development Over Time: An Empirical Comparison of a Dynamic Index and the Standard HDI

Social Indicators Research - This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first...     

INDICATORS OF HUMAN WELL BEING: FINE-TUNING VS. TAKING ACTION?

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Human Capital Disparities and Earnings Inequality in The Portuguese Private Labour Market

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Wage Frontiers in Pre and Post-crisis Spain: Implications for Welfare and Inequality

Social Indicators Research - This paper explores the evolution of wages in Spain using a stochastic frontier approach to estimate the wage frontiers of workers in Spain as a function of their human...