The labor force participation of older women: retired? working? both? (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, September 2002

The labor force participation of older women: retired? working? both?

Elizabeth T. Hill
Assistant Professor of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, PA
Email: ifl@psu.edu

Noneconomic factors—such as level of education, job flexibility in work hours, and physical stress—appear to influence older women’s labor force participation more strongly than economic ones, resulting in many “retired” women who are employed.

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