Older workers can struggle as much with work-life balance as their younger counterparts. But employers need to avoid treating them as a single group – their needs are surprisingly diverse.
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A combination of a decline in workers under 35 and an ageing workforce is leading to labour shortages in many regions.
A study of medical costs and income losses found that those who can least afford to pay for health care and miss out on their paychecks rack up the biggest bills.
Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
The silver lining to recent tech giant job cuts could be more skilled labour for Irish tech and better options for women and older workers.
An ageing labour force and ongoing border closures will put severe pressure on
New Zealand’s economic reliance on immigration.
The proportion of 65-year-olds in work is up by about ten percentage points since 2018.
These two groups bounced back more quickly in the jobs market than certain other groups, although they may still experience lasting consequences.
While it is well known that under-25s are most likely to bear the brunt of job losses when furlough ends, older workers are vulnerable too.
Young and successful entrepreneurs get the attention, but they are the exception, not the norm.
Ita Buttrose may be right. The evidence does suggest younger workers are less resilient. But we shouldn’t make too much of it.
What’s in a word? Plenty, when it comes to the choices we use to describe people over 60. Stigma against older people that has been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic shows why it’s time to change.
The federal government wants more older people to keep working. Our research suggests this requires dramatically reconfiguring work options.
A corrosive ageism in Australian politics overvalues the new, while discounting experience. If the US and UK can see the value in older politicians, why can’t we?
A two-year study finds dissatisfaction with current arrangements, but also identifies small changes that can make a big difference in helping to find suitable jobs for older workers.
Young and old job seekers use the same methods to look for work, but young people have the highest unemployment rates.
Research demonstrates the younger generation do see the older generation as competitors but we can change this adversarial relationship in the workplace.
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Principal Research Fellow, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, and Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Ronald Henderson Research Fellow Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research & Brotherhood of St Laurence, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Entrepreneurship, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University
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Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Stern School of Business, New York University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Flinders University
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology , University of Southern California
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
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Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center, UMass Boston
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, UMass Boston
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Assistant professor of Decent Work & Human Resource Management, University of Galway
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Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Research Economist, Pensions and Public Finance, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
