Tag: employment

The effect of major events on the economy is often long-lasting. For example, the Great Recession triggered a large increase in the share of older workers – defined here as those ages 55 and over – who wanted to work but had given up even looking for a job…

In a Post-COVID world, are older people working? Sometimes, on a lazy summer afternoon, I like to go into the Current Population Survey – the monthly survey that yields the government’s estimate of the unemployment rate – and just tabulate away. What can I say, my social life just isn’t what it used to b…