75. Retirement Kills

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🗓️ 16 May 2012

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Sure, we all dream of leaving the office forever. But what if it's bad for your health?

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC.
0:07.0	This is Freakinomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.
0:16.0	Time now for a little Freakinomics Radio.
0:18.0	It's that moment every couple of weeks where we talk to Stephen Dubner,
0:21.0	the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name.
0:23.0	It is the Hidden Side O-everything.
0:26.0	Dubner, welcome back.
0:28.0	Hey, Ky, thank you.
0:30.0	I'm curious.
0:31.0	Don't take this wrong way, but you're not thinking of retiring any kind of scenario.
0:35.0	No, do you know something I don't know?
0:37.0	I do not.
0:38.0	No, no.
0:39.0	But since you're not, that puts you in good company.
0:42.0	The great recession has put a lot of retirement plans on hold for a long time,
0:47.0	often at the behest of governments who can't afford to pay pensions.
0:51.0	Germany, the UK, France, they've up their retirement ages,
0:54.0	and we're seeing a lot more older workers in the US as well.
0:58.0	Here's Lisa Boily from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
1:02.0	Okay, in 2005 and older, that group was 13% of the labor force.
1:09.0	In 2010, that group was 20% of the labor force.
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