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| Report: Older Workers Are The Answer to Tight Labor Market By John McElhenny BOSTON -- Former state representative Caroline Stouvver Hit the job search trail with a slew of contacts, a decade of work experience and even a reference from the governor of Massachusetts. But at age 60, Stouffer found even that wasn't enough. She went more than a year without finding a job. OlderWorkers |
| Labor Market Transitions Among Older Workers: Job Opportunities, Skills, and Working Conditions By Hirsch, B.T. Macperson, D.A. Hardy, M.A. The paper examines job transitions and opportunities among older workers, with emphasis on occupational skill requirements and working conditions. By standard measures, older workers fare well, realizing relatively high earnings, having low rates of unemployment and displacement, and choosing in large numbers to exit the labor market or decrease work hours at early ages. These measures, however, overstate the opportunities that would face older workers were they to leave current employer and search for a new job. BibEc |
| Older Workers - Lager Market Information In recent years, Federal legislation has been passed to allow or encourage workers to extend their work lives. Anticipating a dramatic decline in the ratio of workers to retirees when the baby-boom generation retires, Social Security regulations have been altered to encourage late labor force withdrawal and to increase penalties for early retirement. In addition, age discrimination laws have been extended to protect workers from mandatory retirement at any age. At the same time, however, an opposite and more dominate force has influenced workers' retirement age; many employers have made earlier and earlier retirement possible through options offered in their plans. business & Labor Info |
| Self-Employment and Labor Market Transitions At Older Ages By Donald Bruce Douglas Holtz-Eakin Joseph Quinn December 2000 In tens years, the leading edge of the baby boomer cohorts will reach age 62, and the United States will begin a fundamental shift in the age distribution of its population and its workforce. The number of Americans aged 62 and over, nearly all eligible to claim social Security old-age benefits, will double from about 40 million today to 80 million in the year 2030, while the proportion of the population in this age group increases by half, form 15 to 23 percent (U.S. Bureau of the Census [1992], Table 2. Despite awareness of these dramatic demographic changes, researchers and policy makers are far from understanding their full implications. Center For Retirement Research |
| Younger Workers Feel Stuck as Older Ones Don't Retire By Stephanie Armour The bear market and weak economy are causing many older workers to stay put rather than retire, which would make way for younger employees. The logjam is raising generational tensions in the workplace, experts say. USAToday |
| The Low-Wage Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Self-Sufficiency By Mark D. Turner The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that mandated a federal minimum wage was adopted by the Congress in 1938. Since then, the federal minimum wage has been increased 19 times, from 25 cents per hour in 1938 to $5.15 in 1997. No employer may legally pay, in industries and occupations the FLSA currently covers, less than $5.15 per hour. In 1996, 79.4 million wage and salary workers, 64.9 percent of all workers, were covered by the FLSA. Minimum Wage |
| Tough Times Even Tougher For Older Workers By Joel Dresang Sept. 1, 2002 In what should be the twilight of his working life, when he should be planning retirement, Ron Schlaack is still trying to land a steady job. Shlaack, 57, has been working in Milwaukee machine shops for nearly four decades. But as manufacturing work has dwindled, so have his prospects for employment. The Journal Sentinel Staff |
| Do Older Workers Have Trouble Using a Computer Than Younger Workers? By Lex Borghans Bas ter Weel February 2002 Technological change is often perceived to harm the position of the incumbent workforce compared to new entrants. Particularly the labor-market position of older workers, who are thought to have lower abilities or incentives to acquire new skills, might be deteriorated by the arrival of new technologies. Research Centre for Education and the Labor Market |
| Older Workers Benefit From Tight Job Market Workers 50 and older are benefiting from the tight labor market, taking just a few more days to find jobs than younger job seekers. ApplesForHealth.com |
| Unemployed Compensation and Older Workers By Christopher J. O'Leary & Stephen A. Wandner Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a Federal-State system of unemployment insurance (UI). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntgarily out of work. For older workers, UI is an important source of income security and a potential influence on work incentives. UpJohn Institute |
| Are Older Workers Responding To The Bear Market? By Andrew D. Eschtruth & Jonathan Gemus September 2002 In the past year, as the economy has weakened and unemployment has risen, the labor force participation rate for older workers (aged 55-64) has jumped by 2.0 percentage points -- an increase unprecedented in post-war UK.S. economic history. Just the Facts |
| Requiem for a Workforce By Bill Good April 2002 Hey gramps, after 20 years of looking over your shoulder at work, worried about being downsized, guess what? You're soon going to be in demand. And that grandchild of yours will too. BCBusiness |
| Tapping a Silver Mine: Older Workers Represent a wealth of Talent By Alison Stein wellner March 2002 Career counselor Patricia Berg has met America's future workforce- and it's older than you might expect. The individuals she's helped place in new jobs include: *A labor law expert who bypassed retirement and now, in his late 70's, works in mediation. *A consulting firm president in his 60's who quit the company only to return two months later as an engineer - the field he's trained for earlier. * A former corporate HR vice president on the edge of 70 who retired, then reentered the workforce as a real estate appraiser. FindArticles.com |
| Dispelling Myths About Older Works For the first time there is documentation dispelling myths about older workers age 50 or older that restrain companies from hiring these adults. In a recent study of major corporations in The United States and Great Britain, the nonprofit commonwealth Fund found the following about older workers: PENpagesCollegeof AgriculturalSciences |
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