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Older workers: increasing their labor force participation and hours of work
Murray Gendell
Professor, Emeritus of Demography, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
E-mail: Murray@Gendell.com
Over the past dozen or so years, older men—especially those 65 years or older—have increased their labor force participation and full-time employment, thereby reversing long-run declines; increases for older women also have occurred and have been proportionately greater.
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