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Work till you drop?
— A note on the potential and limits of employment adjustment to demographic change | | Author(s) | Declan Gaffney |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 13, no 4, December 2012 |
| Publisher | Emerald, December 2012 |
| Pages | pp 275-281 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/journals |
| Keywords | Labour economics ; Employment ; Employment of older people ; Ageing process ; Demography. |
| Annotation | How will labour markets adapt to population ageing? The demographic shift to be experienced over coming decades requires some sort of adjustment in working lives to balance increased longevity. But where in the lifecycle should this adjustment take place? It often seems to be assumed that ever-longer working lives are the only answer. This article questions this assumption, and suggests that there should be a balance between employment and other uses of time across the entire lifecycle. The article analyses the impact of increased economic activity on the dependency ratio, by using international comparative data to identify plausible upper bounds to employment objectives by age and gender. It finds that increased employment for over 65s is likely to have limited impact on the age dependency ratio: greater impacts would be expected from the 55-65 age group and younger women. This article thus brings comparative evidence to bear on labour market implications of population ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121221241 A |
| Classmark | WH: WJ: GC: BG: S8 |
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