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| The decline of employment among older people in Britain | | Author(s) | Nigel Campbell |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 75 pp (CASEpaper 19) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Middle aged ; Employment ; Unemployment ; Remuneration ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Older men have experienced the largest falls in employment over the last 20 years. Two-fifths of men aged between 55 and 65 are without work, compared to one fifth in 1979, and the difference is equivalent to 60,000 fewer jobs for this age group alone. Older women have not shared in the general rise in female employment. This paper analyses the Labour Force Survey and the first six waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), to examine why older people's employment has fallen, which groups have been most affected, and whether these trends are likely to continue. Changes in employment between 1979 and 1997 have been reflected in opposite changes, not in unemployment, but in economic inactivity. Panel data suggest that two groups of over 45s are most likely to leave the labour market: those in the bottom quartile of the hourly wage distribution; and those with wages in the top half but who are also members of an occupational pensions scheme. The author suggests that relatively few people report having suffered from age discrimination, so that is unlikely to be a major cause of changes in patterns of employment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990226201 B |
| Classmark | GC: SE: WJ: WH6: WL: 3F |
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