Tag: older workers
The brief’s key findings are: Over the past 25 years, the labor force participation of men age 60-74 jumped from 35 percent to 44 percent. At the same time, the educational levels of older workers increased dramatically in both absolute terms and relative to prime-age workers. Better educated workers are healthier and have more opportunities…
Abstract As the population grows older, an increasing share of the workforce will be past age 60. Older workers have often been considered less productive than younger ones, raising the issue of whether an aging workforce will also be a less productive one. This paper uses evidence from the monthly Current Population Survey files to…
