Tag: older workers
The brief’s key findings are: The increase in the average retirement age has been driven almost solely by those with more education. Those with less education have: seen less improvement in health; faced more physically demanding jobs and less flexible work schedules; experienced slower increases in lifespans, meaning less to gain from delaying Social Security; and seen…
It’s now a given that more people in their 60s and 70s are choosing to keep working. But a related trend rumbling beneath the surface isn’t so well-known: the share of working older people with full-time jobs has increased sharply – to almost 61 percent in 2016 from 40 percent in 1995 – as part-tim…
