Do Older Workers Face Discrimination?

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Introduction

As the leading edge of the baby boom generation approaches 60, growing evidence suggests that many may want to work beyond traditional retirement ages. Longer work lives may be desirable for a combination of reasons, including financial need, robust health, and the desire to stay active, productive, and engaged...

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Joanna N. Lahey is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College gratefully acknowledges The Atlantic Philanthropies for support of this brief. The brief summarizes previous research by the author, who received support from the National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Grant # 238 7480) and the National Institute on Aging (Grant # T32-AG00186). The author would like to thank Peter Diamond for his helpful comments.