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Managing an ageing workforce in Britain and France | Author(s) | Anne-Marie Guillemard, Philip Taylor, Alan Walker |
Journal title | The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, vol 21, no 81, October 1996 |
Pages | pp 478-501 |
Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Employers ; Managers ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; France. |
Annotation | Results are presented of a comparative study of the practices, opinions and attitudes of employers with regard to the management of their older employees, and more generally to the ageing of the workforce. The authors also attempt a preliminary evaluation of the practices and attitudes of employers. The context of the research is of particular socio-political relevance for two reasons. First, the slowing down of economic activity and the rise in unemployment has been coupled with intermediate social security and employment schemes to bridge the gap with retirement. Second, an awareness of demographic ageing will bring about an internal ageing of the workforce. Despite this, there has been age discrimination in the labour market: workers aged over 40 have been considered to be at the end of their careers and therefore without a future in employment. The article also considers: the attitude of the state towards older workers; schemes to protect workers towards the end of their careers; managing an ageing workforce; employers' ambivalence towards older workers; and policies practised or envisaged in response to labour shortages. (RH). |
Accession Number | CPA-980107207 A |
Classmark | GC: TOB: TF: T6: 48: 8: 765 * |
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