TY  - JOUR
AU  - Goldin, Claudia
AU  - Katz, Lawrence F
TI  - Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 22607
PY  - 2016
Y2  - September 2016
DO  - 10.3386/w22607
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22607
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w22607.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Claudia Goldin
Department of Economics
229 Littauer
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138
Tel: 617/613-1200
Fax: 617/613-1245
E-Mail: cgoldin@harvard.edu

Lawrence F. Katz
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-5148
Fax: 617/613-1245
E-Mail: lkatz@harvard.edu
M1  - published as Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz. "Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations," in Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, editors, "Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages" University of Chicago Press (2018)

M3  - presented at "Women Working Longer Conference", May 21-22, 2016
AB  - American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies.  Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men’s labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s.  The higher labor force participation of older women consists disproportionately of those working at full-time jobs.  Increased labor force participation of women in their older ages is part of the general increase in cohort labor force participation.  Cohort effects, in turn, are mainly a function of educational advances and greater prior work experience.  But labor force participation rates of the most recent cohorts in their forties are less than those for previous cohorts.  It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease.  But several other factors will be operating in an opposing direction leading us to conclude that women are likely to continue to work even longer.
ER  -