Tag: current population survey

Mature Chinese man using laptop at home

The brief’s key findings are: Job-changers over age 50 increasingly end up in “old-person” jobs, with a high share of older hires relative to prime-age hires.  These basic findings hold by gender and by education.  However, the overall outlook has improved since the late 1990s for all groups, particularly for older women with more education…

Saving and pension planning

Abstract Many state and local governments have responded to challenges facing their pension plans by cutting benefits.  Will these cuts make it harder for state and local governments to recruit and retain high-quality workers?  To date, the answer has been difficult to obtain; most micro-level datasets contain information on the existence of pensions but not…