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Older Workers Accounted for All Net Employment Growth in Past 20 Years
Total U.S. employment grew by 11,767,000, or 8.5%, in the 20 years ending in December 2020.1 All that growth—11,879,000, or 101% of the total—was due to increased employment of people age 60 and older. Meanwhile, the net employment change over the past two decades of people ages 16-59 was -112,000 (-1% of the total change), despite this younger group being 3.8 times as large as the older group in December 2000 and still 2.4 times as large in December 2020. (See the figure below.) chart This age-skewed labor-market outcome was the result of two differences between the groups: The older population (60 and older) ... (full story)
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