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The Effect of Workforce Development Program Participation on Older Workers Aged 50 or Older in Georgia
Historically, government workforce development programs have focused on younger individuals. The effectiveness of these programs for older workers...
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Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes A Life Course perspective
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges...
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Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1
India’s informal sector employs many workers without social security benefits, such as pension support and health insurance. Many older workers...
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Labor Market Circumstances of Older Workers Around the World
The issue of employment (and nonemployment) in later life has long been a focus among policy makers. This chapter uses wide range of international...
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Internal and External Factors Influencing the Reemployment of Elite Older Workers in Hebei, China
This paper focuses on a new trend in the Chinese labor market: more retirees pursue reemployment, especially for elite older workers. This paper...
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Older Workers and Their Relations to the Labour Market in Albania
The life course perspective is used in analysis of the older workers relations to the labour market in a societal context. Transition to the market...
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Health and labor force participation among older workers in Switzerland: a growth curve analysis
This study investigated how individual trajectories of self-rated health (SRH) and working hours among older workers in Switzerland are interrelated...
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Determinants of the Willingness to Retire of Older Workers in Europe
Many European countries are facing the challenge of increasing the effective retirement age. Increasing the effective retirement age also requires...
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Perceived Adequacy of Material Support Systems Available to the Childless Older Adults in Southeastern Nigeria: Implications for Social Workers
Children are considered as social and economic safety nets for their elderly parents in many develo** countries, including Nigeria. This perception...
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Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Labor Market Exits of Older Workers?
In this study, I examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on the labor supply decisions of non-disabled, low-educated,...
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Employee perception of managers’ attitudes towards older workers is associated with risk of loss of paid work before state pension age: prospective cohort study with register follow-up
It is increasingly urgent to retain older workers in the workforce. In the present study, we analysed the prospective associations between employees’...
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Changes in physical performance according to job demands across three cohorts of older workers in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
This study set out to evaluate the association between job demands at baseline and physical performance over a six-year period across three cohorts...
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Service Users’ Decision-Making During Transition to Long-Term Care: Social Workers’ and Older People’s Perspectives
As the world’s population rapidly ages, older people are increasingly placed in long-term care institutions. Although this global trend is supposed...
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Hiring Live-in Migrant Care Workers: Motivations and Experiences of Older People and their Families
The increasing number of older people has a significant impact on the organisation of care in European countries. Formal care services face several...
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Perceived Factors Influencing Younger Adults’ Rural-Urban Migration and its Implications on Left Behind Older Parents in Nsukka LGA: Practice Considerations for Gerontological Social Workers
As the number of young adults moving to urban areas increases, so does the number of older parents who are left behind in rural areas, where they...
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Gender, Transitions and Turning Points: The Life Course and Older Workers’ Trajectories in Different US Occupations
This chapter interrogates the proposition that extending working life is an unproblematic policy measure introduced to address demographic ageing and...
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Burnout in Social Workers
Social workers often suffer burnout due to the amount of time and energy they dedicate to attempting to meet the demands of their clients and...
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Role Ambiguity in Social Workers
Role ambiguity, ongoing uncertainty about role and performance expectations, can influence the way in which social workers function with their...
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Sex Workers Ourselves
This chapter provides an overview of common topics within sex work discussions, such as sex trafficking, minors in the sex industry, whorephobia,...
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Older Workers with Physically Demanding Jobs and their Cognitive Functioning
Although employment can provide older people with both financial and nonfinancial rewards, it is questionable whether those benefits extend to all...