Older workers face a more difficult recovery from the COVID-19 recession: Change in employment-to-population ratios during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 recession, 2007–2011 and 2019–2020, by age group

2007–2011 2019–2020
16–24 years old -7.67 -5.32
25–54 years old -4.80 -4.34
55–64 years old -1.82 -3.31
65+ years old 1.24 -1.57

Source: Authors' analysis of EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.14 (2021), https://microdata.epi.org.

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