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Will Employers Want Aging Boomers? (Series/The Retirement Project Discussion Papers)Boomers will probably want to work longer than earlier cohorts, but their continued work requires that employers hire and retain them. Employers value older workers for their maturity, experience and work ethic, but worry about out of date skills and high costs. Slower overall labor supply growth will increase demand for older workers and occupations with higher shares of older workers will increase modestly as a share of all jobs. Future jobs will require less physical demands and more cognitive and interpersonal skills, trends that favor educated older workers, but job opportunities for less educated older workers may remain limited.
| Publication Date: July 23, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Job Market for Aging Boomers Will Favor Brains Over Brawn (Press Release)The occupations that already employ above-average shares of workers age 55 and older rely on an educated workforce and are expected to grow at least 20 percent by 2016, double the 10 percent rate forecast for the national labor force. A new study examines how changes in the nature of work, different occupations, the characteristics of older workers, and overall labor force growth might affect future job prospects for older Americans.
| Publication Date: July 23, 2008 | Availability: HTML |
States Will Find Their Own Solutions (Series/New Safety Net)This paper is a response to New Safety Net Paper 6, "Weathering Job Loss: Unemployment Insurance" by Margaret Simms.
| Publication Date: July 16, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Comment on "Enabling Families to Weather Emergencies and Develop" (Series/New Safety Net)This paper is a response to New Safety Net Paper 7, "Enabling Families to Weather Emergencies and Develop: The Role of Assets," by Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe.
| Publication Date: July 16, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans (Summary) (Summary)Tax and fiscal policy will loom large in the next president's domestic policy agenda. Nearly all of the tax cuts enacted since 2001 expire at the end of 2010 and the individual alternative minimum tax (AMT) threatens to ensnare tens of millions of Americans. While a permanent fix palatable to both political parties has proven elusive, both candidates have proposed major tax changes. This summary outlines our analysis of the 2008 presidential candidates' tax plans. The full length report is also available.
| Publication Date: June 24, 2008 | Availability: HTML | PDF |