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Lisa F. Berkman is Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on population health and health equity. Her research orients toward understanding inequalities in health related to working conditions, social and economic policies, and social networks and isolation.Beth Truesdale is a research fellow at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and a visiting scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Truesdale is a sociologist whose research focuses on inequalities in work and aging, the future of retirement, and the effects of social institutions and public policies on Americans' well-being.

• AcknowledgmentsContributors Introduction: Is Working Longer in Jeopardy?Lisa Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale Part I. Who Has a Job? Labor Trends from Commuting Zones to Countries Chapter 1: When I'm 54: Working Longer Starts Younger than We ThinkBeth C. Truesdale, Lisa Berkman, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz Chapter 2: The Geography of RetirementCourtney C. Coile Chapter 3: The European Context: Declining Health but Rising Labor Force Participation among the Middle-AgedAxel Börsch-Supan, Irene Ferrari, Giacomo Pasini and Luca Salerno Chapter 4: Work and Retirement in the U.S. after the COVID-19 Pandemic ShockRichard B. Freeman Part II. What's the Fit? Workers and Their Abilities, Motivations, and Expectations Chapter 5: The Link between Health and Working Longer: Disparities in Work CapacityBen Berger, Italo Lopez-Garcia, Nicole Maestas, and Kathleen Mullen Chapter 6: The Psychology of Working LongerMargaret E. Beier and Meghan K. Davenport Chapter 7: Forecasting Employment of the Older PopulationMichael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder Part III. Lived Experience: The Role of Occupations, Employers, and Families Chapter 8: Dying with Your Boots On: The Realities of Working Longer in Low-Wage WorkMary Gatta and Jessica Horning Chapter 9: Ad Hoc, Limited, and Reactive: How Firms Respond to an Aging WorkforcePeter Berg and Matthew Piszczek Chapter 10: How Caregiving for Parents Reduces Women's Employment: Patterns Across Sociodemographic GroupsSean Fahle and Kathleen McGarry Part IV. Politics and Policy: Where Population Aging Meets Rising Inequality Chapter 11: Working Longer in an Age of Rising Economic InequalityGary Burtless Chapter 12: How Does Social Security Reform Indecision Affect Younger Cohorts?John B. Shoven, Sita Nataraj Slavov, and John G. Watson Chapter 13: The Biased Politics of "Working Longer" Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson Conclusion: What Is the Way Forward?Lisa Berkman, Beth C. Truesdale, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz

The book is organized into four parts: an evaluation of who works, an assessment of employee-employer fit, an examination of employment in the context of family and workplace, and a contemplation of politics and future policy. The book's scope is broad, covering retirement, retirement policy, health policy, and a good bit of labor economics. The data and statistics presented are up-to-date, and the essayists make useful international comparisons. The chapters in the book are well-written and scholarly in nature and will make valuable references for scholars and policy makers, but they are not too technical for undergraduate students.