1st Edition
Prolonged Employment of Older Workers Determinants of Managers’ Decisions Regarding Hiring, Retention, and Training
By Kasia Karpińska
Copyright 2013
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Prolonged and productive employment of older workers is a necessary condition to maintain welfare and social security systems threatened by ageing populations. Yet not much is known about the factors that define the opportunities for older workers in the labour market. The current study has evaluated which individual characteristics of older workers, organisations and managers affect managers'... Read more
1. General introduction, 2. The recruitment of early retirees: a vignette study of the factors that affect managers’ decisions, 3. Hiring retirees. Impact of age norms and stereotypes, 4. Retention of older workers: impact of manager’s age norms and stereotypes, 5. Training opportunities for older workers in the Netherlands. A policy capturing study, 6. Conclusion,References, List of NIDI books/reports
Biography
Kasia Karpińska has a Master of Arts degree in Sociology from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland) and a Master of Science degree in Sociology and Social Research from Utrecht University. The present study was conducted at the Utrecht University School of Economics (USE, Utrecht) and at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI, the Hague).
