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Earnings trends among older employees in England and Wales, 1972-2001
- Authors:
- MALLIER Tony, MORRIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 23(3), May 2003, pp.363-374.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article considers the hypothesis that 'older people in full-time employment normally receive earnings below the level previously enjoyed', by examining the money and real earnings of older British full-time employees as they age. After a review of the factors that influence earnings, data from the New Earnings Survey of Great Britain are used to estimate average gross weekly money and real earnings of two cohorts of manual and non-manual workers as they age. The two cohorts were born respectively in 1927 and 1937, and male and female employees are considered separately. The estimates are used to develop time series age-earnings profiles of real earnings. These suggest that the average full-time older employee normally benefits over time from rising real earnings as a consequence of increases in national prosperity, although the increases vary by gender, occupational group and cohort. Older female employees benefited more than males from significantly higher percentage increases in their average real earnings, and between 1981-2000 average real earnings in non-manual occupations rose relative to manual workers' earnings.
The role of local initiatives in tackling the exclusion of older workers from the labour market in Britain
- Authors:
- COLLIS Clive, MALLIER Tony, SMITH-CANHAM James
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 25(3), Winter 1999, pp.47-61.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The exclusion of older workers from the labour market is a widespread phenomenon in Britain, but that the problem has proved to be worse in traditionally depressed regions, where fewer job opportunities are available. A number of local initiatives have been developed to help older workers re-enter the labour market, but initiatives and good practice are often isolated from each other. In this article, authors examine examples of good practice and the barriers which have constrained their continuation; in addition, some initiatives which are not good examples are discussed.