Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages.

• Position: NBER Books

Edited by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

304 pages, 77 line drawings, 70 tables

$130 (cloth)

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s and has persisted for decades, despite substantial changes in macroeco-nomic conditions. Today's older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. Why is this so ?

In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are...