Older people feel that employment allows them continued personal growth, as well as the opportunity to pass on knowledge and values in the workforce. Employers benefit from retaining older employees who know their work and workplace well, have evolved with the organization, and can be available ...
Freelance worker; Late-career self-employment; Older worker Definition Self-employment among older adults refers to individuals aged 50 or 55 and above (Halvorsen and Morrow-Howell 2017; OECD 2013), who practice a professional activity for the purpose of gain without being an employee, thereby bei...
This paper reviews the recent changes in labor force participation and withdrawal in the United States and examines some of possible reasons for the changes. Nowadays, many older Americans are extending their work lives and delaying retirement. This longer work life is accompanied by the emergence ...
A reduction in the youth unemployment rate may bid-up the young adult wage rate, or make young adults less prepared to work flexibly or for few hours per week. In either case this makes it more attractive for employers to hire children on an informal basis. VAT registrations are published ...
challenges they are facing in the aging process. This paper studies the self-employment of the elderly. Considering the health human capital situation of the elderly, the elderly of advanced age are no longer suitable for re-employment. Therefore, this paper selects the data of the younger ...
Using micro data from the US Census, this paper tests the importance of the spatial isolation of minority and poverty households for youth employment in the largest US metropolitan areas. We first estimate a model relating youth employment probabilities to individual and family characteristics, race,...
The idea of trainability testing was a popular one in the early industrialgerontologyliterature (Robertson & Downs, 1979; Robertson & Mindel, 1980). Trainability testing emerged due to a concern that traditional tests, such as general mental ability tests, would not be valid for older adults; tr...
K Mavromaras,C Polidano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 被引量: 12发表: 2011年 Canadian Survey on Disability, 2012 – A Profile of the Labour Market Experiences of Adults with Disabilities among Canadians aged 15 years or older, 2012 Using data from the 2012 Canadian Survey on ...
2. What is the biggest challenge facing seniors looking for employment? There are a few big challenges for older workers seeking employment: the assumption that you are not going to stick around very long; that you are overqualified; and that your technology skills are rusty and outdated. Unfo...
Refugees are a distinct population of immigrants in the US that experience unique challenges to their integration in the US economy (Ager & Strang, 2008). A major challenge for refugees is their experience of traumatic events prior to and during their migration to the US, and subsequent symptoms...