The Curious Case of Older Workers and Employment During the Recession

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Casey Mulligan has a very interesting post at the Economix blog today, based on this surprising graph:

So older workers have either been more successful at keeping their jobs.  Or many have had to return to work or work longer because of diminishing funds in retirement accounts--in which case they have had more success than younger workers at finding employment.  Or both.

Read Why Hasn’t Employment of the Elderly Fallen? here.


Posted 07-20-2011 11:26 AM by Graham Griffith
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