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October 2001

Retirement age declines again in 1990s

Murray Gendell

The average retirement age resumed its long-run decline in the 1990s after having leveled off during the preceding 10 to 15 years; the resumption of the decline is attributed largely to a rise in the labor force participation rate of older men and women between the mid-1980s and 2000

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