We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the role of work-life balance as a non-monetary determinant of retirement transitions, conditional on job attributes such as hours of work, compensation, and benefits. We rely on self-reported measures of work-life conflict to proxy for low levels of work-life balance. We show that high levels of work-life conflict are significantly associated with subsequent reductions in labor supply for workers aged 51 to 79, and document heterogeneity by gender and employment status. Moreover, work-life conflict moderates labor supply responses to spousal health shocks. Workers who report higher levels of work-life conflict are significantly more likely to reduce their labor supply in the two years following a spouse’s health shock, and this effect is once more heterogeneous. The moderating effect of work-life conflict is stronger for women than men and, among female workers, stronger for those employed part-time at baseline.

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工作与生活平衡和老年劳动力依恋

我们使用来自健康与退休研究的数据来检查工作与生活平衡作为退休过渡的非货币决定因素的作用，条件是工作时间、薪酬和福利等工作属性。我们依靠自我报告的工作与生活冲突的测量来代表工作与生活平衡的低水平。我们表明，高水平的工作与生活冲突与随后 51 至 79 岁工人的劳动力供应减少显着相关，并记录了性别和就业状况的异质性。此外，工作与生活的冲突缓和了劳动力供应对配偶健康冲击的反应。报告工作与生活冲突程度较高的工人在配偶健康受到冲击后的两年内更有可能减少他们的劳动力供应，而且这种影响再次呈现出异质性。