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Increasing numbers are now on their own for health insurance and retirement saving. Increasingly, commentators refer to the “gig economy,” suggesting that large numbers of workers get a series of short-term jobs through a mobile-app arrangement.  Larry Katz (Harvard) and Alan Krueger (Princeton) designed a questionnaire to provide the first nationally representative survey-based estimate of…

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Only about half of U.S. workers in their late 50s can be expected to remain employed at age 63, and less than a third make it past 65. New research looks below the surface of these broad trends to reveal the role that the specific characteristics of individual occupations play in whether baby boomers can…