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Older Workers and Employers' Demands

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Raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare is based on the assumption that elderly Americans can and should work more. We present new evidence that rejects the assumption that elderly Americans are physically and mentally able to work for pay later into life and that, by extension, employers will find older people to be desirable employees. We find that older workers' physical and mental job requirements have increased between 1992 and 2008. Our findings align with Neumark and Song's (2012) conclusions that older workers are facing more age discrimination. Together these findings suggest that raising the retirement age – essentially is a cut in benefits – would hurt most older American workers.

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  • Anthony Bonen, 2013. "Older Workers and Employers' Demands," SCEPA policy note series. 2013-01, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School.
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    1. David Neumark & Joanne Song, 2012. "Barriers to Later Retirement: Increases in the Full Retirement Age, Age Discrimination, and the Physical Challenges of Work," Working Papers wp265, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
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    Retirement; 401(k); Retirement; Social Security;
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    JEL classification:

    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General

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