Tag: baby boomers
The brief’s key findings are: Older people have lower labor force participation rates than younger adults, so aging baby boomers are pushing down overall participation. This aging effect accounts for more than 40 percent of the decline since the onset of the Great Recession. An aging population also lowers unemployment slightly because older individuals who…
In the aftermath of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the incidence of divorce climbed, peaking around 1980. Millions of women were suddenly on their own at a time when women were still having to prove themselves to many employers. But I remember being impressed by a college friend’s mother whose divorce wasn’t…
