{"id":66985,"date":"2015-05-23T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66985"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:08:51","slug":"reversing-a-100-year-trend-men-are-staying-in-the-workforce-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/05\/23\/reversing-a-100-year-trend-men-are-staying-in-the-workforce-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversing a 100 Year Trend, Men are Staying in the Workforce Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to company pensions, employer age limits, shifts in the economy, and the initiation of social security, men have increasingly enjoyed a little 20th century social invention called “retirement.”\u00a0In 1860, more than 80% of men age 70\u00a0to 74 worked, but by around 2000, that number had dropped to below 20%.<\/p>\n

As of the 2000s, this more-than-100-year-trend of increasing\u00a0numbers of men enjoying their “golden\u00a0years” has reversed. This is your image of the week:<\/p>\n

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Over at Made in America<\/a>, from where I borrowed this graph, sociologist Claude Fisher explains the reversal of the trend (citations at the link):<\/p>\n

The private sources of retirement support, such as company pensions and investments, have weakened; [and] public sources of aid are under strain from a lower birth rate, a stagnating economy, and political retrenchment. And the years that such support must cover are growing. In 1990 a 65-year-old man could expect to live about 15 more years; in 2010, 18 more years. That\u2019s an extra 20 percent of financing needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among other things, the economic health of older Americans is an important sign of the overall health of the\u00a0economy. It will be interesting to keep an eye on this statistic in the near future.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to company pensions, employer age limits, shifts in the economy, and the initiation of social security, men have increasingly enjoyed a little 20th century social invention called “retirement.”\u00a0In 1860, more than 80% of men age 70\u00a0to 74 worked, but by around 2000, that number had dropped to below 20%. As of the 2000s, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,36,23635,23666,253,76],"class_list":["post-66985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-economics","tag-economics-history","tag-economics-social-welfare","tag-history","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/05\/4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66989,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66985\/revisions\/66989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}