Are Aging Baby Boomers Squeezing Young Workers out of Jobs?
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* Alicia H. Munnell is the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. April Yanyuan Wu is a research economist at the CRR. The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The authors would like to thank Laura Quinby and Kara Bradley for excellent research assistance and Norma B. Coe, Matthew S. Rutledge, and Anthony Webb for their comments. Introduction
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