Work-Life Balance and Labor Force Attachment at Older Ages

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the role of work-life balance as a non-monetary determinant of retirement transitions, conditional on job attributes such as hours of work, compensation, and benefits. We rely on self-reported measures of work-life conflict to proxy for low...

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Published in:Journal of labor research 2020-06, Vol.41 (1-2), p.34-68
Main Authors: Angrisani, Marco, Casanova, Maria, Meijer, Erik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Compensation
Conflict
Employment status
Heterogeneity
Labor force
Labor supply
Life transitions
Occupational status
Part time employment
Retirement
Social Sciences
Work
Work life balance
Work-Leisure conflict
Workers
Working hours
Working women
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Summary:We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the role of work-life balance as a non-monetary determinant of retirement transitions, conditional on job attributes such as hours of work, compensation, and benefits. We rely on self-reported measures of work-life conflict to proxy for low levels of work-life balance. We show that high levels of work-life conflict are significantly associated with subsequent reductions in labor supply for workers aged 51 to 79, and document heterogeneity by gender and employment status. Moreover, work-life conflict moderates labor supply responses to spousal health shocks. Workers who report higher levels of work-life conflict are significantly more likely to reduce their labor supply in the two years following a spouse’s health shock, and this effect is once more heterogeneous. The moderating effect of work-life conflict is stronger for women than men and, among female workers, stronger for those employed part-time at baseline.
ISSN:0195-3613
1936-4768
DOI:10.1007/s12122-020-09301-8