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Navajo man sitting on the bed of his pick-up truck in Monument Valley

Recessions and Older Workers

Issue Brief by , , and

January 20, 2009

The brief’s key findings are: Despite the current recession, the employment rate of older men has not fallen. This surprising fact is the net result of two long-term developments. On the one hand, the labor force participation of older workers has risen steadily due to changes in Social Security, job demands, and health care access…