Tag: nontraditional workers
The brief’s key findings are: Nontraditional jobs lack health and retirement benefits, but could help older workers prolong their careers by offering more flexibility and less stress. The questions are whether workers in traditional jobs at 62 who are underprepared for retirement are more likely to switch to nontraditional work, and whether it helps. T…
Abstract Holding nontraditional jobs – those that provide neither health insurance nor retirement benefits – at younger ages likely hurts retirement security relative to traditional jobs. But nontraditional work might be helpful to those looking to extend their careers for financial reasons. This study uses the Health and Retirement Study to determine the extent to…
