Twisting the Demand Curve: Digitalization and the Older Workforce

This paper was presented at the October 2019 Cornell ILR Conference on “Models of Linked Employer-Employee Data” celebrating Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis's 1999 AKM decomposition model, and at the Stanford SIEPR “Working Longer and Retirement” conference, also held in October 2019. Thanks to Nicole Fortin and Paul Oyer for comments. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau or the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board and Disclosure Avoidance Officers have reviewed this information product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and have approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Number 1571. (CBDRB-FY20-P1571-R8608). This research uses data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants SES-9978093, SES-0339191 and ITR-0427889; we have received funding from the National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; The Norwegian Research Council Grant #280307, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Grant B-2017-9943-OWRR, the National Science Foundation Grant 1928616 FW-HTF-P (AIRL), and grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).