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January 2008

Older workers: increasing their labor force participation and hours of work

Murray Gendell

Over the past dozen or so years, older men--especially those 65 years or older--have increased their labor force participation and full-time employment, thereby reversing long-run declines; increases for older women also have occurred and have been proportionately greater.

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