Archive: Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher

Senior woman during business presentation

A common refrain among retirement researchers is that longer careers are the best way to ensure an adequate retirement.  This refrain is often directed at the workers themselves – “you need to work longer!”  And that message seems to have been getting through.  Since the 1990s, the labor force participation rates of older individuals hav…

Senior man working on a computer writing on a notepad

At any given time, a large pool of people ages 55-70 – over 15 million today – indicate they are retired.  With the U.S. economy currently facing a labor shortage, the potential return of these retirees to the workforce is an important question.  On the one hand, it seems likely that many retired workers could…