Population aging in a globalizing labour market: implications for older workers
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2009
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Against a background of population aging, and with it, warnings about the sustainability of social welfare systems and problems associated with declining labour supply, there is an increasing policy emphasis on extending working lives of older workers among the industrialised nations (Hirsch, 2003; Keese, 2005; Taylor, 2006). However, recent commentaries have tended to focus on the relationship between population aging and the labour market, largely ignoring other critical factors that are affecting older workers’ relationship with the labour market. This contrasts with extensive research undertaken in the 1980s and 1990s when the forces acting upon older workers at that time were thoroughly elucidated (e.g. Kohli et al., 1991). The focus of this paper is on the labour supply challenges for employers and nations arising from demographic trends, in combination with social and technological changes and the wider forces of globalisation, how each is responding, and how these trends are affecting older workers’ trying to secure or maintain footholds in a labour market but facing, as Richard Sennett (2006) puts it, the ‘spectre of uselessness’ as jobs they could do have either migrated to other parts of the world or have been destroyed in the wake of industry failure. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/31149/1/c31149.pdf http://csd.wustl.edu/Publications/Documents/RP09-51.pdf Taylor, Philip, Jorgensen, Brad, & Watson, Erin (2009) Population aging in a globalizing labour market: implications for older workers. In Proceedings of the Productive Aging Conference, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong . |
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Copyright 2009 [please consult the authors] |
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Australian Centre for Business Research; QUT Business School; School of Management |
Palavras-Chave | #150306 Industrial Relations #Population Ageing #Labour Market #Globalization #Older Workers |
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Conference Paper |