The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance of retaining aging workers, describe challenges identified in doing so, and discuss workplace policies and practices that organizations can preemptively put in place to keep these workers productive and active longer into their working years....
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-Howell2017; OECD2013), who practice a professional activity for the purpose of gain without being an employee, thereby being res...
A key concern of European policymakers is how to raise the labour-force participation of older workers. This is necessary, for example, to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems in many countries – one of the challenges posed by population ageing. Retirement and labour-supply decisions of...
Employment services face many challenges in promoting older jobseekers to employers who may be reluctant to take on staff they perceive as“rusty” or “threatening”[12]. Programs such as the now-defunctCorporate Champions[13]can help to promote the benefits of age-diverse wo...
This conflict has resulted in particularly prominent legal challenges in Scotland as to whether ‘sex’ for the purposes of the EA means biological sex or recognizes the legal sex of people with a GRC. This conflict will take the national stage in November 2024 when the UK’s Supreme Court ...
There are some measures to mitigate the challenges of an ageing population in the workplace, as retirees often complain that employers improperly favour the other. In this era, young generation tend to have an edge ove...
The disability system and programs to promote employment for people with disabilities This paper examines employment-focused interventions within the US disability system. Our review illustrates the challenges of developing and implementing ... D Wittenburg,DR Mann,A Thompkins - 《Iza Journal of Labor ...
Occupational health and the the provision of nursing care for older adults Providing nursing care to the senior citizen is a rewarding and exciting area of nursing. Care is provided in a vast array of settings from home health and day care to extended residential care sites. These challenges re...
Many countries are carrying out reforms to encourage longer working lives, to incentivize worker retention, and to respond to the looming challenges of rapid population aging (Sonnet et al.2014). In some countries this is a reversal of earlier policy aimed at early exit of older people from th...
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,...