A major argument used by those who wish to extend working lives is that there is no such as a ‘lump of labour’: in other words, labour markets are not fixed in number, they are instead capable of massive expansion.
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John Macnicol

John Macnicol
John Macnicol is Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He has researched extensively on old age, age discrimination and retirement. He recently published Neoliberalising Old Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015).