Will Inflation Keep Older Workers in the Workforce?

The price of everything is spiralling which means all of the calculations that people made about retirement may need to be re-calculated.  That might mean staying in the workforce longer or maybe returning after you have exited it. Whatever decisions…

Episode 65: How Will Longer Life Spans Change Work Lives?

How will work have to change to accommodate longer life spans? A child born today has a 50 per cent chance of living to one hundred, but even now we know the workforce is aging. In turn,  that means we…

Episode 41: How Much Should We Worry About Long Term Unemployment?

We are getting good news on the economy and the labor market but are the statistics telling us the whole story? Even with a surge in hiring and a fall in the unemployment, there is a core of people who…

Episode 34: How Can We Re-skill to Keep Up with Technology?

Our major economic problem right now is the pandemic and its offshoots, but that does not mean the economic issues we had before the pandemic have gone away. One of those issues is technology, or rather the speed of technological…

Why the K-Shaped Recovery Will Not be Kind to Older Workers

I have been talking and writing about the K-Shaped economic recovery for a while now. Basically, some sectors and individuals are going to be in favor over the coming years and some are not, with the split between the two…