(Bloomberg) — Older U.S. workers are defying expectations, and international trends, when it comes to their labor force involvement.

Americans are living longer, are less likely to have pension plans, and are in better health further into old age–yet a long-running uptrend in 55-64 year-old labor force participation rates has stalled in the U.S. since 2008, even as it's persisted in most other advanced industrial nations.

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