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Work or retirement at carer's end?
— a new challenge for company strategies and public policies in ageing societies | | Author(s) | Anne-Marie Guillemard |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 141, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 21-40 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Retirement policy ; Companies ; Social policy ; International ; Europe ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Working life has become shorter. In turn, some welfare systems have made new arrangements to cover the new status of young people entering the job market later and of ageing wage earners who have left the job market early. The author argues for a reversal of this trend of the shorter working life, by developing effective public policies for jobs and welfare to maintain older wage earners' "employability", and by stimulating firms to adjust their personnel policies accordingly. Merely considering old-age pensions is too narrow a focus. The harmful consequences are examined of changes in economic activity levels (particularly early exit) internationally. Some European countries have implemented policies which have not succeeded in reducing the early exit trend, whilst certain countries such as Sweden and Japan have been successful: the reasons for this are examined. Lessons are drawn on managing the life course to meet the challenge of an ageing labour force and an ageing population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000131203 B |
| Classmark | GC: G5: X2: TM2: 72: 74: 7DT |
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