Tag: older workers

Senior man working on a computer writing on a notepad

Introduction  At any given time, a large pool of people ages 55-70 – over 15 million today – indicate they are retired.  With the U.S. economy currently facing a labor shortage, the potential return of these retirees to the workforce is an important question.  On the one hand, it seems likely that many retired workers…

older couple with advisor discussing finances

Three months into the pandemic, a few million older workers had been laid off or quit. But what happened next? The rapid drop in employment due to COVID gave the Center for Retirement Research an unusual opportunity to study the labor force decisions of baby boomers, who are within striking distance of retirement age but…