Tag: older workers
People’s attachment much weaker, retirement more prevalent, and many jobs lack benefits. We just finished a paper on how older workers use “nontraditional” jobs – that is, jobs without health and retirement benefits. In the process of answering that question, we found that only 26 percent of older workers were employed steadily in traditional jobs…
The brief’s key findings are: Since the Industrial Revolution, laborsaving machines have helped generate enormous economic growth and new employment opportunities. But machines can require painful short-term transitions as displaced workers scramble to adapt to a changing labor market. Historically, workers have learned new skills for jobs in growing industries, but today’s increasingly capable robots…
