Tag: older workers

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Maintaining a network of family, friends, or even golfing buddies is critical to cognitive and physical health in old age, research has shown. What wasn’t known is how work affects the social lives of older people. Does work foster social ties or limit the time one has to socialize? A new study by Eleonora Patacchin…

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Abstract Delaying retirement improves retirement preparedness, but older workers cannot work longer if employers do not hire or retain them.  This study examines one way in which public policy potentially makes older workers more attractive to employers: state regulatory restrictions on how much employer premiums are permitted to increase at small firms with older, unhealthier…