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Why a late-career job switch could be a good move. It always surprises me that older workers are willing to hurl themselves onto the job market.  Yet, voluntary job-changing among late-career workers increased steadily between the 1980s and the mid-2000s before declining somewhat in recent years.  Today, more than 40 percent of workers 58-62 hav…

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There’s new evidence to remind us that nothing much changes: we are still baffled by our DIY retirement system. And no wonder! First, saving must start at a young age, when retirement is an abstraction. Saving is further stymied by two big questions: how much to save and how to invest it?  It’s also smart…