Returning to work: The role of soft skills and automatability on unretirement decisions
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Keywords
Automation; Post-retirement employment; Productive aging; Soft skills; Technological change; Unretirement;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
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