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 people make will have wide consequences for the economy and the labor market – read […]

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 getter ever larger. In many cases older workers, unfortunately, are resolutely going to be on […]

So Maybe the Baby Boomers Will Never Retire (Ok with You Millennials? No?)

It is almost like an urban myth: we were supposed to get a wave of baby boomer retirements that were going to make it a seller’s market for younger workers. And it is happening – except that it is apparently more like a splash than a full wave. So it boomers are not going, what […]