Demand for Older Workers: Variation by Industry and Firm Characteristics

Principal Investigator: Robert Clark

Sponsor: The Sloan Foundation

Award Period: 10/1/2019 - 9/30/2021

Amount: $249,957

Description: This research will provide significant new information on the demand for older workers and how the aging of the workforce is requiring firms to modify their employment conditions and compensation programs. A key element of the analysis is to document how firms in different industries and of different sizes are responding to the aging of the labor force and the desire of employees to delay retirement.