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Flexible employment in later life
— public policy panaceas in the search for mechanisms to extend working lives | | Author(s) | Kerry Platman |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 3, pt 2, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 181-188 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Conditions of employment [elderly] ; Phased retirement ; Retirement policy. |
| Annotation | Flexible employment has been suggested as an employment policy solution to the problem of inactive older workers. Temporary contracts, part-time jobs, self-employment and freelance consulting have been seen as viable options for people needing to make gradual transitions into retirement, and for governments wishing to encourage an extension to working lives. This paper uses the UK as a case to examine the multi-stakeholder appeal of flexible transitions into retirement. However, the term has been poorly defined and conceptualised. Drawing on her own research, the author challenges the notion of flexible extensions to working lives for the oldest members of the labour force. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040506209 A |
| Classmark | GC:WKA: G5N: G5 |
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