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Age matters
— a review of existing survey evidence | | Author(s) | Peter Urwin |
| Corporate Author | Department of Trade and Industry - DTI; University of Westminster |
| Publisher | Department of Trade and Industry - DTI, London, 2004 |
| Pages | 143 pp (Employment relations research series, no 24)(URN 03/1623) |
| Source | DTI Publications Orderline: 0870 1802 500; Website: www.dti.gov.uk/publications |
| Keywords | Employment ; Ageism ; Employment of older people ; Conditions of employment ; Ethnic groups ; Social policy ; Social surveys ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Evidence suggests that those aged between 50 and State Pension Age (SPA) may be viewed less favourably by employers when recruiting, retaining and training staff. The introduction of age legislation will tackle any such practices that are seen to be discriminatory. This study identifies currently available datasets which provide appropriate information on the age dimension of various labour market indicators, from both the employee and employer perspectives. Basic secondary analysis is carried out for the following datasets: the quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS); the General Household Survey (GHS); British Social Attitudes Survey; the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS88); and the Employers' Pension Provision Survey (EPPS) 2000. Other surveys are reviewed briefly, including: the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) 1991-2002; the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) 2001; and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The reasons for this study's focus are: the steady decline in the proportion of economically active older people since the 1950s; and demographers' prediction of an increase in the proportion of older people in the UK population in the coming decades. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040616004 B |
| Classmark | WJ: B:TOB: GC: WKA: TK: TM2: 3F: 64A |
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