We present new evidence to support our earlier finding that there was no appreciable trend in the rate of retirement … for American men between 1870 and 1930. The data suggests that Jon Moen's claim that retirement increased appreciably …

male Americans experiencing 6 months or more of unemployment in the previous year ("long-term unemployed"). In terms of …. Because the probability of re-employment, conditional on unemployment, appears to have declined with age, the probability of … experiencing long-term unemployment rose as persons aged. Census data are consistent with the view that the older an individual was …