Tag: job changers
The brief’s key findings are: Workers in their 50s today, compared to previous generations, are more likely to switch jobs voluntarily. The question is whether such job changes lengthen or shorten a worker’s career. The results suggest that job changes lengthen careers: those who switch jobs are much more likely to still be in t…
Abstract Job-changing among late-career workers increased steadily from the 1980s through the mid-2000s before declining somewhat in recent years. This study asks how the rise in job-changing – which seems largely voluntary – affects retirement timing and whether this effect varies by a key measure of socioeconomic status: educational attainment. Workers presumably change jobs voluntarily…