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Moving older people into jobs
— Jobcentre Plus, New Deal and the job shortfall for the over 50s | | Author(s) | Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University; Third Age Employment Network - TAEN |
| Publisher | Third Age Employment Network, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 19 pp |
| Source | The Third Age Employment Network, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. E-mail: taen@helptheaged.org.uk |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Social policy ; Unemployment ; Regional. |
| Annotation | Jobcentre Plus and the various New Deals are central to the present government's efforts to increase labour force participation of older workers and reduce dependency on benefits. The central thesis of this paper is that although such initiatives will undoubtedly prove useful to many people, they fail to take account of the profound regional and local differences in the availability of jobs. Indeed, it is in the areas where older workers living on benefits are most numerous that the government's new initiatives seem least relevant. Thus, geographical employment and unemployment patterns across the UK - including new estimates of the job shortfall affecting older workers - are examined in some detail. This paper was commissioned by the Third Age Employment Network (TAEN) for its Annual Conference in 2002, the theme of which was "Returners and Retention". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030124001 B |
| Classmark | GC: TM2: WH6: 5CP |
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