Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan M. - In: Journal of Human Resources 45 (2010) 2
After a long decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We examine how changes in Social Security rules affected these trends. We attribute only a small portion of the decline from the...