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 [...]
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, [...]
3 strategies to help harness the benefits of a mature workforce New Curtin University-led research has identified how organisations can overcome the so-called ‘challenge’ of Australia’s ageing workforce in order to reap the benefits of an age diverse workforce. The research, published in Work, Ageing and Retirement, identified three types of strategies, known [...]
Editor's picks Latest news from around the world on mature workers for September 2019. ‘Not easy to get a job past 40’: How ageism at agencies affects older employees Chris Thilk is 44 years old. It’s been three years since he was let go from full-time agency work, and he [...]
CEPAR Chief Investigator Prof Marian Baird gives a sneak peak of some of the results of our national benchmarking survey of mature workers
Latest news from around the world for August 2019 on mature workers.
The CEPAR Mature Workers research team hosted around 50 representatives from industry, not-for-profits and government organisations at an afternoon tea event in Sydney.
