documented that as people age they gradually lose certain skills relating to their ability to do physical work or use new … technologies, or their literacy and numeracy skills. By contrast, as they build up experience, older workers develop better … planning skills and a greater ability to supervise the work of others and respond to setbacks. However, the transition between …

workers in jobs intensive in numerical tasks – relative to reading tasks – perform relatively better in the numeracy section … hold mainly for simple tasks, suggesting that our findings are not fully generated by the sorting of workers across jobs. A …

of action, namely, loss prevention measures, consumers complaints services, and legal defense actions. The three tasks …

longer on cognitive skills. …