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| Are older workers different? | | Author(s) | Stephen McNair, Matt Flynn, Lynda Owen |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Research into the Older Workforce (CROW), University of Surrey |
| Publisher | Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, University of Surrey, Guildford, April 2004 |
| Pages | 6 pp (Briefing paper 1) |
| Source | Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7HX. http://www.surrey.ac.uk/education/crow |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Because of falling birth rates and growing life expectancy, governments throughout the developed world are trying to encourage people to stay at work longer. Reasons for this include being able to fill gaps in the workforce created by declining numbers of young entrants, and reducing the tax and pensions burden created by increasing numbers of pensioners. This first briefing paper from CROW reviews current research, including its own report on job change and attitudes towards work after retirement. The findings emphasise that every "older worker" is different, does not suddenly become an "older worker". Indeed, people's past experiences of work affect their attitudes to staying later in work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040817215 P |
| Classmark | GC: TOB: 3F * |
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