04-17-2024, 06:19 PM
(04-17-2024, 11:33 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(04-17-2024, 12:48 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: The sudden negative swing of the 50-55 age cohort just stood out to me.
This also misses (or only slightly includes) the significant negative provincial immigration of young people that Ontario has seen lately I think.
As for the employment data. Yes, working people longer does please the capitalists and the Chicago school economists. But I would like everyone to be able to enjoy a retirement.
It's over the span of five years so that shift in the age groups seems very reasonable to me. And Stats Canada is reliable so I have no reason to doubt it. The numbers are national so individual provincial will not stand out.
A non-trivial number of people actually want to work past 60 or 65. Some people do enjoy their work!
I’m not questioning the numbers. But questioning why. all other cohorts are stable or rising and only that one is shrinking. I found that odd.
And yes, many people do want to work past 65, but I don’t see evidence that number is increasing or that it explains the increase in those who do work past 65