Grants

RAND Corporation

To improve our understanding of the role of local labor demand in affecting the work and retirement patterns of older Americans

  • Amount $544,638
  • City Santa Monica, CA
  • Investigator Nicole Maestas
  • Year 2012
  • Program Research
  • Sub-program Working Longer

Funds from this grant support the work of Nichole Maestas of the Rand Corporation, who is studying how changes in labor demand affects the employment outcomes of older workers. In earlier work, Maestas has catalogued how older workers often "unretire", re-entering the workforce after a previous exit. Some 60 percent of such workers who unretire end up changing occupations, moving from managerial and professional work to positions in sales, administration, and service provision, positions that are often part-time or offer more flexible scheduling opportunities. Maestas will look at existing datasets to understand the extent to which this phenomenon can be explained by changes in the labor demand for such positions, looking at how growth in industries with large proportions of sales, administrative or service jobs, and the subsequent increase in the demand for workers to fill these jobs, explains employment outcomes for older workers.

Back to grants database
We use cookies to analyze our traffic. Please decide if you are willing to accept cookies from our website.