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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:00

The Boston Globe mentioned AIER and the work of Research Fellow Polina Vlasenko's in the article Working Longer, Staying Sharper, published on Monday, July 27.

Since the start of the recession, more people nearing or just past retirement age have opted to stay in the workforce. Polina Vlasenko, a researcher at the American Institute for Economic Research, analyzed years of national data and found that the labor force participation rate of people ages 54 to 69 is now at the highest levels on record.

β€œIt is likely that people close to or past retirement age feel the need to work because their retirement savings have suffered in the recent financial crisis,’’ she concluded in her May study.

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