Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns of First-Time Mothers 1961-2003 (PDF) uses SIPP data to examine employment patterns of mothers who gave birth to a first child between 1961 and 2003. The report is part of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports Household Economic Studies series (P70-113).

The Statistics Department within the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has just launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. The service brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can search and down load a variety of statistical resources of the UN system. Click here for more information and access to the service.

The January 27 Washington Post featured a 3-part series on aging. (Free registration is required to view the WP articles.)

In No Country for Old People? Marc Freedman discusses “encore careers” for baby boomers. Freedman has also written a book, Encore: Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life.

In The New Alone, Elizabeth Marquardt discusses how family configurations (divorce, remarriage, “re-divorce”, single-parent childbearing) affect care in old age. Also see Divorce Foretells Child’s Future Care For Elderly Parent (a news story about Adam Davey’s work) and Marquardt’s book about her work with sociologist Norval Glenn, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

In A Hidden Crime, Marie Therese-Connelly sheds light on elder abuse and our lengthening life spans.

Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas (PDF) by Alessandro Tarozzi and Angus Deaton (June 2007, Princeton University Research Program in Development Studies)

Mothers’ Residential Mobility Following the Birth of a Child (PDF; Fragile Families Research Brief, Princeton Center for Research on Child Wellbeing)

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review by Jeffrey Grogger & Lynn Karoly (NBER Working Paper No. 13485, October 2007)

Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages by Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert K. Triest (WP#2007-14, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College).

Inter-vivos Giving Over the Lifecycle by Michael Hurd, James P. Smith, & Julie Zissimopoulos (WR-524, RAND).

Foreign-born Latino workers moved out of the low end of wage distribution into the middle between 1995 and 2005, according to an analysis of CPS data by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Citation: Rakesh Kochhar (2007, August). 1995–2005: Foreign-Born Latinos Make Progress on Wages. Pew Hispanic Center. (Available online)

The Commonwealth Fund/National Opinion Research Center Survey of Retiree Health Benefits, 2005: A Chartbook is available for download from the Commonwealth Fund.

Reasons People Do Not Work: 2004 (PDF) uses Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data to fill in gaps in our knowledge about nonworkers.

The report is number P70-111 in the Current Population Reports series from the Census Bureau.

In May 2007 the Urban Institute sponsored Public and Private Roles in the Workplace: What are the Next Steps in Supporting Working Families?, a roundtable involving business leaders, practitioners, national policy experts, researchers, and advocates. Papers from the roundtable are available online.

Social Security provides benefits on a gender-neutral basis, but gender-related differences in work culture mean that in practice Social Security provides different levels of retirement security for men and women (Women and Social Security [PDF], American Academy of Actuaries issue brief).