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Employment discrimination against older workers
— an experimental study of hiring practices | | Author(s) | Marc Bendick, Charles W Jackson, J Horacio Romero |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 8, no 4, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 25-46 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Recruitment ; Observation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Pairs of CVs (curriculum vitae), one for a 57 year old and the other for a 32 year old, were sent to 775 large firms and employment agencies across the US. Although the CVs presented equal qualifications, the older job seeker received a less favourable employer response 26.5% of times when a position appeared to be vacant. Vigorous enforcement of equal opportunity laws as well as initiatives to change employer attitudes are appropriate responses to such discrimination. The technique of employment testing, demonstrated in this research, can be useful in both efforts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980513226 A |
| Classmark | GC: TOB: WK6: 4AA: 7T |
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