Abstract
Using a life-course/opportunity-cost framework we study racial differences in labor force behavior among African American and white men aged 55 to 69 [in the United States]. A multifaceted measure of labor force behavior is examined within a longitudinal framework. We perform the analyses with a merged sample of the 1984 and 1985 Survey of Income and Program Participation and we find that the most stable status is not working followed by full-time part-time and unemployed statuses. Results from multivariate logistic regression change models show race-specific effects of age health and not-working status on several labor force status and attrition contrasts. Researchers have much to gain by continuing to consider racial differences in late-life labor force behavior and by focusing on contemporaneous and lagged measures of life-course variables. (EXCERPT)
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