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...
Examples of how engineering can contribute to the integration of older people into work settings are presented.doi:10.1080/03610739408253976CzajaSara J.Exp Aging ResExperimental Aging ResearchS.J. Czaja, Employment opportunities for older adults: engineering design and research issues, Experimental Aging ...
With these projected numbers, it’s important for older adults to use resources like the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) to find a job that will work for them.The SCSEPis “the nation’s oldest program to help low-income, unemployed individuals aged 55+ find employment.” ...
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...
Body mass index, waist circumference and employment: Evidence from older Irish adults 来自 Elsevier 喜欢 0 阅读量: 35 作者: I Mosca 摘要: Abstract Data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing are used to examine the relationship between fatness and obesity and employment ...
The probability of being self-employed across the OECD is higher for men and for older workers compared with younger workers. In Europe the probabilities are lower the more educated an individual is, while the opposite is true in the US. Some groups of immigrants have higher rates of self-...
Comparing the relationship between subjective well-being and consumption—proxied by permanent income—for older Americans with and without chronic illness, Finkelstein et al. (2013) infer that the marginal utility of consumption decreases with ill-health. If we assume that the increased disutility of...
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Examining employment outcomes is an important area of new research with UM in the US, particularly because the majority are older and closer to entering employment settings. Understanding barriers and facilitators to employment can identify new ways of supporting UM as they strive to gain stable ...
BACKGROUND: Despite the recent policy push to keep older adults in the labour force, we know almost nothing about the potential health consequences of working longer. Drawing on a life course approach that considers stability and change in employment patterns, this study examines the relationship ...