Employer Strategies for Responding to an Aging Workforce
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by Francine M. Tishman, Sara Van Looy, and Susanne M. Bruyère
Executive Summary
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued in 2006, the number of workers over age 55 is projected to increase significantly over the next 20 years, with this demographic group projected to comprise as much as one-fifth of the nation’s workforce by 2015. The unprecedented aging of the world’s population and the strong correlation between aging and disability challenges many institutions, labor markets, and public pension programs.