caa a22 4500 388068779 CHVBK 20180307125140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700024098 doi S0022050700024098 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700024098 Did They Jump or Were They Pushed? The Exit of Older Men from the London Labor Market, 1929-1931 [Elektronische Daten] We examine the income of older men in London around 1930, based on a large sample. The income of nonworking older men was substantially below that of men still working. We find no evidence that retirement rates increased at the state-penionable—unsurprisingly, since pension paryments provided less than a povertyline income. Less demanding or part-time work was unavailable. Hence we conclude that the decision of older manual workers to leave the labor market was determined primarily by the absence of appropriate employment opportunities, rather than the presence of substantial assets or nonlabor income. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 Baines Dudley Dudley Baines is Reader, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton street, London WC2AE, England. Email: d.e.baines@lse.ac.uk. Johnson Paul Paul Johnson is Professor, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton street, London WC2AE, England. Email: p.a.johnson@lse.ac.uk. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 949-971 0022-0507 59:4<949 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baines Dudley Dudley Baines is Reader, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton street, London WC2AE, England. Email: d.e.baines@lse.ac.uk NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson Paul Paul Johnson is Professor, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton street, London WC2AE, England. Email: p.a.johnson@lse.ac.uk NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 949-971 0022-0507 59:4<949 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge