Tag: older workers

disappearing workers

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…

African woman showing her dish

The brief’s key findings are: In the 1990s, most states adopted policies limiting the ability of health insurers to charge higher premiums for older workers in small firms. The question is whether these changes made such workers more attractive to employers. The analysis suggests the changes had little effect for older workers in small firms:…