The future for older workers : : New perspectives / / ed. by Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff, Philip J. White.
Across the world governments in mature industrial and post-industrial economies are concerned about the ageing population. Dealing directly and exclusively with the issue of older workers, this book brings together up-to-the-minute research findings by many of the leading researchers and writers in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary of UK-based institutions and programmes
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Older workers in the labour market: the demographic context
- The American experience of age discrimination legislation
- The employment of older people: can we learn from Japan?
- Moving older people into jobs: Incapacity Benefit, Labour’s reforms and the job shortfall in the UK regions
- Women’s knowledge of, and attitudes to, pensions
- Sustaining working lives: the challenge of retention
- Healthy work for older workers: work design and management factors
- Flexible work and older workers
- The employability of older workers: what works?
- Is extending working life possible? Research and policy issues
- The future for older workers: opportunities and constraints
- Index