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This insightful study provides an overview of the changing employment context in industrialized nations, the risks associated with population ageing and how these are being tackled. Prolonging working lives is high on the agenda of policy makers in most of the world's major industrialized natio...
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| Group Author: | |
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| Published: |
Edward Elgar,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Globalization and welfare
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| Summary: |
This insightful study provides an overview of the changing employment context in industrialized nations, the risks associated with population ageing and how these are being tackled. Prolonging working lives is high on the agenda of policy makers in most of the world's major industrialized nations. This book explains how they are keen to tackle issues associated with the ageing of populations, namely the funding of pension systems and predictions concerning a dwindling labour supply. Yet the recent history of older workers has primarily been one of premature exit from the labour force in the |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Include bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781782540090 (hardback) : 1782540091 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HD6279 |
| CLC: |
C913.6 F241 |
| Call Number: | F241/O447 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction : older workers in an ageing society / Philip Taylor -- 2. Public policy for an ageing workforce : how does the U.S. compare? / Sara Rix -- 3. Older workers and older worker policies in Germany / Gerd Naegele -- 4. Age discrimination in the United Kingdom : an overview of the law and its application in practice / Yvette Budé -- 5. Older workers in Japan : the present situation and the future challenges / Masato Oka -- 6. Age and work in different labour market contexts / Jonas Edlund and Mikael Stattin -- 7. Lifelong learning and the world of work / Harvey Sterns and Diane |