Tag: older workers
The brief’s key findings are: Over the past 25 years, the average retirement age for U.S. workers has been rising, a trend that should align with when people first claim Social Security. But the percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows little change until recently. A better metric to capture claiming behavior…
Bits and pieces of evidence suggest the ACA may lead to a small decline in work. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, economists have been trying to figure out how the availability of health insurance not tied to the employer will affect labor supply, particularly that of older workers. On…
