RELAB POLICY NOTE | A growing pool of American older workers (age 55 and over) must continue working or seeking work because their retirement income is inadequate.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Working longer is often proposed as the solution to the retirement crisis caused by older workers’ lack of retirement assets, but new research from SCEPA's ReLab shows this assumption doesn't match older workers' real experiences in the labor market.

RELAB ARTICLE | A retirement crisis looms as the labor market becomes less friendly to older workers when they are most numerous and least able to retire.

RELAB ARTICLE | A realistic look at the disempowered status of America’s older workers and their rocky path to a secure retirement.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a headline unemployment rate (U-3) for workers 55 and over of 3.1%  in June, up 0.3 percentage points from May.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | This report documents the growth in older workers’ unstable and low-wage jobs from 2005 to 2015. By 2015, nearly 25% of older workers were in bad jobs.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported an unemployment rate of 3.7% for workers aged 55 and older in October. However, the unemployment rate fails to reflect the increasing concentration of older workers in low-wage service jobs.

BRIEF | On April 3, the U.S. Department of Labor reported the unemployment rate for older workers fell from 4.3% in February to 3.9% in March.

WORKING PAPER | This paper compares trends in low pay employment in the US and France.