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According a 2007 analysis of HRS survey data, among "war babies"(respondents born between 1942-1947) who had full-time career (FTC) jobs since age 50 and who had moved off their FTC job by 2004, 67 percent of the men and 71 percent of the women first moved to a bridge job." (p. 10)

Giandrea, M. D., Cahill, K. E., & Quinn, J. F. (2007). An update on bridge jobs: The HRS war babies (Working Paper No. 407). Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070060.htm

"This paper explores the retirement patterns of a younger cohort of individuals from the HRS [Health and Retirement Study] known as the "War Babies" These survey respondents were born between 1942 and 1947 and were 57 to 62 years of age at the time of their fourth bi-annual HRS interview in 2004." (p.2)

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