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The aging science and engineering workforce in the U.S. can be traced back to the Baby Boomer cohort of researchers and the elimination of mandatory retirement in universities.
Mar 27, 2017
D.M. BLAU & B.A. WEINBERG
(See D.M. Blau & B.A. Weinberg, “Why the US science and engineering workforce is aging rapidly,” PNAS, doi:1073/pnas.1611748114, 2017.)
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