Strong evidence employers discriminate on age at in-person interviews Newmark, D. (2020). Age Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Age-Blind vs. Non-Age-Blind Hiring Procedures. NBER Working Paper No. 26623, January 2020, JEL No. J14,J7. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26623.pdf I study age discrimination in hiring, exploiting a difference between age-revealed and [...]
Congratulations Sharon! Mature Workers in Organisations Chief Investigator, Prof. Sharon Parker, has been named among the world’s most influential scientists and social scientists in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list released by the Web of Science Group. The annual edition acknowledges world-class researchers for their exceptional research, which is demonstrated by [...]
Age and work satisfaction | Flexible work's influence on retirement savings | Gender roles and employment pathways | Reactions to age stereotypes Age, Person–Environment Fit and Work Satisfaction Rauvola, R. S., Rudolph, C. W., Ebbert, L. K., & Zacher, H. (2019). Person–Environment Fit and Work Satisfaction: Exploring the Conditional [...]
Editor's picks Latest news from around the world on mature workers for January 2020 How do we upskill a billion people by 2025? Leadership and collaboration will be key Many of the conversations at Davos this week will focus on how we can upskill a billion people over the [...]
Editor’s picks News highlights from around the world on mature workers for December 2019, including: older women increasingly in the workforce; Deutsche Telekom accused of humiliating age discrimination and harassment; elderly South Koreans working ‘until they die’; companies investing in multi-generational workers; and the case of the 79-year-old flight attendant [...]
ABC Current Affairs program The World Today featured our Report Maximising Potential: Findings from the Mature Workers in Organisations Survey (MWOS) on their program on the day of its release. "Australia is entering a period of unprecedented population ageing as we live and work longer than every before. And the first large-scale survey [...]
CEPAR Chief Investigator, Professor Marian Baird, appeared on Cassie McCullogh's Focus program on ABC Sydney on 12 December discussing our new Report Maximising Potential: Findings from the Mature Workers in Organisations Survey (MWOS). Listen now
Maximising Potential: Findings from the Mature Workers in Organisations Survey (MWOS) Our new report, released today, finds that mature workers across Australia feel excluded in today’s workforce and have limited development opportunities and flexible working arrangements, compared to the younger population. We conducted a national benchmarking survey of mature workers to [...]
Download the Report Maximising Potential: Findings from the Mature Workers in Organisations Survey (MWOS) Authors: Daniela Andrei, Sharon Parker, Andreea Constantin, Marian Baird, Lucinda Iles, Gretchen Petery, Leah Zoszak, Alison Williams, Shannon Chen Our research finds that mature workers across Australia feel excluded in today’s workforce and [...]
CEPAR’s team from Curtin University will hold a panel discussion on Effective Management of an Age-Diverse Workforce during the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology conference. The conference will be held in Austin Texas in April 2020. Dr Daniela Andrei and Dr Gigi Petery will moderate the panel discussion with four [...]
Editor's picks News highlights from around the world on mature workers for November 2019. The US fertility rate has dropped for the fourth year in a row, and it might forecast a 'demographic time bomb' The US fertility rate has reached an all time low in decades and fallen [...]
Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work | Why Singles Prefer to Retire Later | The Ageing Workforce in Ireland | Sustaining the “longevity dividend” Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work Editors: Sara J. Czaja, Joseph Sharit and Jacquelyn B. James Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24135-3 This timely [...]
On the Interactive Effects of Objective and Subjective Age on Work Outcomes for Men and Women Justin Marcus, Barbara A Fritzsche, Yin Lu Ng, On the Interactive Effects of Objective and Subjective Age on Work Outcomes for Men and Women, Work, Aging and Retirement, waz018, https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waz018 Abstract Based upon theory [...]
Reporting tools CEPAR has a range of reporting tools for participating organisations. Participants are given real-time access to rich data on their workforce and organisational policies, as well as survey data and intervention data. More tools are currently in development. Survey Feedback Platform The M-WOS survey is conducted in [...]
CEPAR's Age Diversity Management Model, developed by Prof Sharon Parker and Dr Daniela Andrei at Curtin University, categorises the key ingredients necessary for managing an age-diverse workforce. These ingredients are explained below:
Effects of Early Retirement Policy Changes on Working until Retirement: Natural Experiment Boot, C.R.; Scharn, M.; van der Beek, A.J.; Andersen, L.L.; Elbers, C.T.; Lindeboom, M. Effects of Early Retirement Policy Changes on Working until Retirement: Natural Experiment. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3895. Many European countries have implemented [...]
Legislative committee clears anti-age bias bill A bill to ban age discrimination in the workplace yesterday cleared the committee stage at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. The aim of the bill is to help boost the working rate of middle-aged and elderly people, protect their right to rejoin the workforce and [...]
Research news: Employees’ perceptions of their future | Gendered ageism | Leveraging mature workers Occupational Future Time Perspective: A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents and Outcomes Rudolph, C., Kooij, D., Rauvola, R., & Zacher, H. (2018). Occupational future time perspective: A meta‐analysis of antecedents and outcomes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(2), 229–248. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2264 Occupational future [...]
Understanding Older Worker Precarity Lain, D. et al (2019). Understanding Older Worker Precarity: The Intersecting Domains of Jobs, Households and the Welfare State. Ageing & Society, 39, 2219–2241 doi:10.1017/S0144686X18001253 We argue that many older workers, not just those in ‘precarious jobs’, feel a sense of ‘onto- logical precarity’. Pressures to work longer, [...]
Include, Individualize, and Integrate: Organizational Meta-strategies for Mature Workers Sharon K Parker, Daniela M Andrei Work, Aging and Retirement, waz009, https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waz009 Published: 2 September 2019 Abstract In this commentary, we synthesize the literature on mature workers in organizations to support the development of an intervention-focused research program. We identify 3 broad approaches, or [...]
