Perspectives on Working Time ove the Life Cycle

Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians

“…Cohort tables -tables for people with a common date of birth -are more difficult to construct and rarer than period tables. For Canada, cohort calculations were made by Wolfson and Rowe (2001), using a multistate microsimulation framework, although it appears that the working life tables themselves were not actually published; for the U.S., a cohort table for males was constructed by Lee (2001). We make no pretense of being exhaustive but note also the following relevant cohort studies: Booth and Tickle (2004), Wilmoth (2005), Statistics New Zealand (2006), and Babel, Bomsdorf and Schmidt (2007).…”