Life and Worklife Expectancies 2nd Ed

Now the information you need for determining life and worklife expectancies is in one complete volume right at your fingertips: smokers by education, many educational categories by race/Hispanic origin, persons with medical conditions, and more. Our brand new Life and Worklife Expectancies, Second Edition now features extensive life and worklife expectancy tables and figures in an easily accessible format.

Part I contains an overview of the methods and data sources used in life ....

tables: differences between period and cohort life tables, properties of survival data, life expectancy by educational attainment, race/Hispanic origin, smoking status, relative mortality ratios for persons with medical risks, quality of care and life expectancy in cases of illness or disability, use of life annuities and structured settlements, calculation of retirement benefits, and more.

Part II addresses the main methods of determining duration of working life. Detailed tables for all methods and many educational, demographic, smoking status , occupational category, gender and race/Hispanic origin are provided. Biases are discussed and previous worklife estimates are corrected by including mortality rates by educational attainment. The increment-decrement model is carefully analyzed for correction of other potential biases. In addition, it discusses pros and cons of the various methods, for example worklife expectancies, Life-Participation-Employment (LPE) and Median Years to Retirement (MYR).

Part III contains comprehensive tables of life and worklife expectancies for the many demographics discussed in the text. This is the most complete overview of life and worklife expectancies for attorneys, insurance professionals, and forensic economists available anywhere.

Topics covered:

Introduction to life tables and life expectancy
Overview of life expectancies
Cohort tables
Current (period) tables
Life expectancies for persons with medical risks
Effects of cigarette smoking on life expectancy
Life expectancy and the properties of survival data
Bias and how to reduce or eliminate it
Standard errors of estimates
Introduction to estimates of working life
Increment-decrement worklife expectancies by sex, race/Hispanic origin and education
Conventional model worklife estimates by sex, race and education
Hispanic worklife expectancies by education and English language proficiency
Worklife expectancies by cigarette smoking status and education
The life, participation, employment method
Median years to retirement
Issues in estimation of worklife
Female labor force patterns
Disabled persons
Current and future trends of labor force participation
Comparisons of methods
Sample calculations and comparisons
Comprehensive life and worklife expectancy tables