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Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9780226532509

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2018

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226532646.001.0001

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Women Working Longer
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Claudia Goldin

Lawrence F. Katz

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University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226532646.003.0001

American women are participating in the labor force more than ever into their sixties and even seventies. Their participation rates when 55 to 64 years old now differ from men’s by less than 10 percentage points whereas around 1970 they differed by about 40 percentage points. The nine essays in this volume consider potential reasons why older women are participating more than ever and assess whether the trend will continue.

Keywords:   female labor force participation, women's employment, working longer, retirement, Social Security

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