What Is the Average Retirement Age
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Since working longer
is the key to a secure retirement for the vast majority of older Americans,
it is useful to take a look at labor force trends for those under and over age
65 for the last century.
This brief proceeds in three
steps. The first section describes the long-run decline in labor force participation
of men. The second looks at the turnaround that began in the mid-1980s. The
third section discusses the trends for women, which combine their increasing
labor force activity, on the one hand, and incentives to retire, on the other...
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