economic transitions amongst the over-50s lorenzo cappellari richard dorsett getinet haile
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Economic transitions amongst
the over-50s
Lorenzo Cappellari
Richard Dorsett
Getinet Haile
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Format
• Policy background and research questions
• Analytical approach
• Summary of the data used in the analysis
• A description of the over-50s, 1993-2003
• Results of modelling transitions
• Results of modelling time until change
• Summary
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Policy background and research questions
• Pensions Green Paper states commitment to raising employment among older people
• Research questions:– Who are the over-50s?
– How should over-50s employment be characterised?
– How much movement between states is there?
– How quickly does this movement happen?
– What factors are associated with movement?
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Analytical approach
• Focus on those aged 50 – SPA
• Use longitudinal data to examine changes
• Two approaches:– Markov models examine transitions between
two points in time (state dependence)– Duration models examine the time taken until a
change from initial state (duration dependence)
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Data – longitudinal LFS
• 5 quarter LLFS observes households 5 times (quarterly) over a year
• Data are weighted – nationally representative
• Data cover 1993-2003
• Resulting dataset has 26,000 individuals
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Descriptive statistics
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Size of the 50-SPA population
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The changing size of the older working age population
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Summary of characteristics
• Mostly white (97, 97%: men, women)• Mostly partnered (82, 77)• Mostly without dependent kids (86, 90)• Mostly own/mortgage accom (78, 79)• Long-term health probs common (45, 41)• About a quarter on benefit (23, 24)• Men better qualified: no quals (26, 39); NVQ3+
(51, 27); apprenticeship (32, 5)
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Economic status when first observed by gender (col %) male female Employee 51 56 Self-employed 16 6 Unpaid family worker 0 1 ILO unemployed 5 3 Inactive 1 - inactive but would like work - looking after family/ home 0 1 - long term sick or disabled 4 3 - believes no job available 1 1 - not looked 1 1 Inactive 2 - inactive and would not like work - looking after family, home 1 10 - long-term sick or disabled 11 9 - not need or want job 1 3 - retired 8 4 - other reason 0 1 Base 14,857 11,174
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Grouped economic status (col %) male female Employed 67 62 Unemployed 5 3 Inactive 1 7 6 Inactive 2 22 29 Base 14,857 11,174
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Changes over time in status
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Transitions over a year between broad groups (row %) Emp Unemp Inac 1 Inac 2 base Men: Employed 91 2 2 5 10,154 Unemployed 25 48 15 12 579 Inactive 1 6 7 46 41 934 Inactive 2 3 1 13 83 3,190 Women: Employed 90 1 1 8 7,109 Unemployed 33 32 16 19 271 Inactive 1 6 4 40 50 628 Inactive 2 4 1 10 85 3,166
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Examining transitions between states with Markov models
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Markov models• transition probabilities: estimating probability of being
in a particular state conditional on the state occupied at an earlier time.
• control for differences in characteristics (but do not consider duration issues)
• allow assessment of state dependence. Policy relevance:– causal effects of states – via eg signalling, human capital
changes, loss of motivation – may be more important than personal characteristics
– so all individuals may become trapped in, for example, unemployment once they experience the state.
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State dependence status in current quarter: status in previous quarter: Emp Unemp Inac 1 Inac 2
men (n=39,696)
Unemployed -0.403** 0.111** 0.123** 0.169**
Inactive type 1 -0.596** 0.084* 0.167** 0.344**
Inactive type 2 -0.723** -0.014** 0.053 0.684**
women (n=27,735) Unemployed -0.396** 0.056** 0.114** 0.225*
Inactive type 1 -0.565** 0.045 0.126** 0.394**
Inactive type 2 -0.734** -0.007 0.025 0.716**
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status in current quarter:
status in previous quarter FT emp PT emp Unemp Inac 1 Inac 2
men (n=39,696)
Part-time employed -0.384** 0.126** 0.072** 0.053 0.133**
Unemployed -0.523** 0.108* 0.098** 0.105* 0.212**
Inactive type 1 -0.628** 0.026 0.076* 0.144** 0.382**
Inactive type 2 -0.665** -0.058* -0.011 0.04 0.695**
women (n=27,735) Part-time employed -0.341** -0.005 0.011 0.035** 0.3**
Unemployed -0.389** -0.133 0.015* 0.038** 0.469**
Inactive type 1 -0.393** -0.236* 0.01 0.039* 0.581**
Inactive type 2 -0.394** -0.336** -0.015 -0.011 0.756**
The role of FT and PT employment
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Examining timing of transitions with duration analysis
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Duration analysis
• Models the ‘hazard’: the probability of a transition at some point for those who had not experienced a transition before that point
• Allows assessment of duration dependence. Policy relevance: the longer individuals are in an adverse labour market state the harder it may become to help them.
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• Age: older men & women more likely to exit employment• Qualification: no significant marginal effect• Accommodation: men and women with a mortgage less
likely to exit employment• Having a partner: women: less likely to exit. Non-working
partner more likely to exit (for both men and women) • Occupation: no significant marginal effect• Industry: men in all industries but real estate & ‘other’ more
likely to exit• Hours of work: men with <30 hrs/wk more likely to exit;
women <17 hrs more likely to exit• Region: Men in all but York & H., Wales, Scotland and N.
Ireland less likely to exit; Women in York & H., EM, rest of SE, WM, & Wales less likely to exit.
Employment exits: marginal effects
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Exits from type 2 inactivity
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• Age: older men & women less likely to exit
• Disability: temp and perm more likely to exit
• Mortgage & rented: more likely to exit
• Dependent children: more likely to exit
• Partner: non-working partners less likely to exit
• Region: NI less likely to exit
Marginal effects of covariates
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Summary
• Evidence of state dependence and duration dependence. Former shows potential risk for all individuals of being trapped in inactivity. Duration dependence shows importance of escaping this trap relatively early. Policy faces trade-off between intervening soon and risking deadweight or intervening later and risking individuals becoming hard-to-help. However, inactivity spells are mostly long (average about 7 years for men and 10-14 for women).
• For those in employment, need to help individuals remain in work for long enough to overcome early shake-out (most exits are concentrated in first 3 years).
• Part-time work as bridge to full-time work. Scope for policy to support bridging role of part-time work.