Tag: employment
Abstract To assess the employment opportunities of older job-changers in the years prior to retirement, this study examines how the breadth of occupations in which they find employment narrows as they age past their prime working years and how this differs by gender and educational attainment. The results indicate that workers who change jobs in…
The brief’s key findings are: State and local government employment dropped sharply during the Great Recession, unlike in previous recessions, and continues to decline even today. But this decline in public sector employment was less severe than that experienced by the private sector. Being a state/local worker reduced the probability of job loss by 2 percentage points,…
