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Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages

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Understanding the implications of work beyond traditional retirement ages is crucial because older workers will compose an increasing proportion of the labor force in the coming decades. A new body of research has emerged on the aging workforce and its implications for older workers, their families, employers, the workplace, and policy makers. This report will focus on the individual-level human capital and demographic characteristics associated with decisions to continue working at older ages, the experience of working at older ages, as well as the social and structural factors that inhibit or enable employment among these workers.

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Events

The Persistence of Ageism: Constraining Work Opportunities at Older Ages Webinar

  • October 25, 2022
  • 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Aggregate measures of explicit attitudes demonstrate that on average, Americans hold moderately negative views of older people. Over time, these views have become less negative; however, implicit atti...

The Role of Social Policy in Shaping Work and Retirement Behavior at Older Ages Webinar

  • October 12, 2022
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Social policies environments set the context for later life retirement and work decisions. Although the importance of both Social Security and Medicare for providing financial stability through income...

The Future of Work: Implications for an Aging Workforce Webinar

  • October 4, 2022
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Workplace norms, policies, and practices shape work and retirement pathways by increasing or constraining older workers’ agency in work-related decisions. These work practices define the employment re...

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages, Report Discussion Webinar

  • July 21, 2022
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

An aging workforce, extended healthy life expectancy, mounting inequality, new technologies, and heightened economic and job precarity mean work arrangements among older adults are in flux. Growing nu...

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 3

  • August 20 - 25, 2020
  • Past

This is the third meeting of the Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages on August 20 and 25, 2020. Please contact Mary Ghitelman if you wish to attend the open ses...
Meetings

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 6

  • January 28, 2021
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
  • Closed
  • Past

This is a meeting of the Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages. The committee will discuss finalizing their report. This meeting is closed in its entirety.

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 5

  • December 21, 2020
  • 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)
  • Closed
  • Past

This is a meeting of the Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages. The committee will discuss finalizing their report. This meeting is closed in its entirety.

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 4

  • October 12 - 13, 2020
  • Closed
  • Past

This is the fourth meeting of the Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages. The committee will discuss finalizing their report. This meeting is closed in its entiret...

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 2.5

  • June 25, 2020
  • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Closed
  • Tele Conference
  • Past

This is a follow-up meeting to the second meeting of the Committee on Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages

Understanding the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages - Meeting 2

  • June 9 - 10, 2020
  • Tele Conference
  • Past

The purpose of this meeting is to serve as an information gathering session for the Committee to Understand the Aging Workforce and Employment at Older Ages to aid in the preparation of their report....
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