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Workforce Ageing in the New Economy: a comparative study of information technology employment
— a European summary report focusing on the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands | | Author(s) | Kerry Platman, Philip Taylor |
| Corporate Author | Workforce Ageing in the New Economy Project (WANE); Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA), University of Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2004 |
| Pages | 20 pp |
| Source | Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ. |
| Keywords | Information technology ; Industries ; Employment of older people ; Transitional phase ; Retirement ; Projects ; United Kingdom ; Germany ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The Workforce Ageing in the New Economy (WANE) project focuses on working practices in the information technology sector. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the project involves an international consortium of academics and information technology partners in Europe, Canada, the United States and Australia. Workforces are ageing in all of the countries involved in the study, and the WANE project is concerned with employment transitions and management approaches in the IT sector. This summary report brings together the key European findings of Phase 1 of the project. These findings are based on customised data from the European Union Labour Force Survey, which enables patterns of employment of IT professionals to be charted in three European countries (the UK, Germany and the Netherlands). Around 80% of IT practitioners are aged under 45 in all three countries, a level much higher than for their respective labour forces as a whole. Even so, there are signs that the IT workforce is ageing, and trends such as self-employment and the lack of part-time employment have implications for management practices and policies in the sector. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100301002 B |
| Classmark | UVB: X: GC: 4MT: G3: 3E: 8: 767: 76H |
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