TY - JOUR T1 - Beyond Blue and White Collar: <em>Age-Related Decline, Occupation, and Retirement Timing</em> JF - The Journal of Retirement SP - 26 LP - 41 DO - 10.3905/jor.2017.5.2.026 VL - 5 IS - 2 AU - Anek Belbase AU - Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher AU - Christopher M. Gillis Y1 - 2017/10/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/5/2/26.abstract N2 - Retirement timing research has accounted for age-related decline in ability to work by classifying occupations as blue or white collar, but this rough categorization may throw out information. Instead, this article presents a susceptibility index that measures how susceptible the abilities required by an occupation are to early decline. The results suggest that (1) considerable variance exists, especially within white-collar occupations, in the importance of abilities that are known to show early decline; (2) this variance, as captured by the index, is predictive of early retirement; and (3) this variance captures more information than the common white- and blue-collar distinction.TOPICS: Retirement, legal/regulatory/public policy, statistical methods ER -