Will unretirement help solve the labor shortage?

Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey T., and Matthew S. Rutledge. “Will unretirement help solve the labor shortage?”. Issue in Brief 22-4, Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, March 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109370.
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Abstract

The brief's key findings are: (1) The question is whether retirees can be lured back into the workforce to ease the current labor shortage. (2) "Unretirement" trends in recent decades indicate that reentry rates are low in any given year, but are somewhat responsive to tight labor markets. (3) Thus, today's high rate of job openings should convince some retirees to come off the sidelines, though the number will likely be small relative to the shortfall. (4) In the current climate, one factor that could potentially lead to more unretirements than anticipated is the increased ability to work remotely.

Title
Will unretirement help solve the labor shortage?
Author
Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey T.
Rutledge, Matthew S.
School
Arts and Sciences
Discipline
Economics
Center
Center for Retirement Research
Genre
report
Date Issued
March 2022
Publisher
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Series Title
Issue in Brief
Series Number
22-4
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109370
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Subject
Older Workers

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