A new study finds that boomers forced to work longer because of low retirement savings will be laboring under a double handicap: staying in the workplace longer than they planned while working for jobs with wages lower than they should be because of the size of their birth cohort — e.g., the size of the boomer generation itself.

The study, from The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, warns that delayed retirement is no solution to the retirement crisis, for a number of reasons.

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