caa a22 4500 386329311 CHVBK 20190412221954.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700007397 doi S0022050700007397 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700007397 The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870-1930: A Reply to Moen [Elektronische Daten] In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century.1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of "gainful employment” was replaced by that of the "labor force” in 1940, the official census figures on occupations contained a large proportion of older men and women who by today's standard would be regarded as retired2. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 Ransom Roger L. Professor of History and Economics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92502 Sutch Richard Professor of Economics and History, and Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 170-183 0022-0507 49:1<170 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700007397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700007397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ransom Roger L. Professor of History and Economics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92502 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sutch Richard Professor of Economics and History, and Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 170-183 0022-0507 49:1<170 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 386329311 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge