Do Older Workers Face Greater Risk of Displacement ?
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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 in Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Steven Sass is Associate Director for Research, Mauricio Soto is a senior research associate, and Natalia Zhivan is a graduate research assistant at the CRR. This brief is adapted from a longer paper (Munnell, et al. 2006) that is available at http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/wp_ 2006-17.shtml. Robert Hutchens provided very useful comments on this paper. The authors would like to thank Madeline Zavodny for generously sharing her knowledge, experience, and files. They would also like to thank Francesca Golub-Sass and Jerilyn Libby for excellent research assistance and Kelly Haverstick for helping us untangle our equations. Introduction
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تاریخ انتشار 2006