Why the US science and engineering workforce is aging rapidly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 3879-3884

  Blau, David M ^a,b   Weinberg, Bruce A ^a,b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Demography; Innovation; Retirement; Science of science

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAREER; EMPLOYMENT; ENGINEERING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; UNITED STATES; MANPOWER; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; EMPLOYMENT; ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RETIREMENT; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85033498429     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611748114     Document Type: Article

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