Tag: older workers
The brief’s key findings are: An expansion in the Veterans Administration health care system offers insights on how health insurance reform may affect older workers’ employment decisions. The VA reform provided free coverage outside of employment, causing older male workers to work less by increasing their income and reducing job lock. More-educated workers used suc…
The brief’s key findings are: Older workers are now as vulnerable to layoffs as younger workers, because: their job tenure has declined, eroding the traditional protection afforded by seniority; and the risk of layoffs in manufacturing has risen, particularly for older workers. The heightened vulnerability of older workers is a serious concern, because unemployed older…
