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Age and employment: why employers should think again about older workers
- Author:
- WORSLEY Richard
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 160p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comprehensive review of employers' policies and practices on employment of older workers.
Employment: the role of work in the third age
- Authors:
- TRINDER Chris, HULME Geoffrey, McCARTHY Una
- Publisher:
- Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 83p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dunfermline
Health and place: how levelling up health can keep older workers working
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 31
- Place of publication:
- London
This study explores the link between levels of employment of older people and health in a place. The report finds that the higher the proportion of older people with poor health in a place, the less likely it is that any adults in that place will be in paid work. For example: older workers from the unhealthiest areas are 60% more likely to be out of work than those who live in the healthiest areas; women aged 50-74 living in the ‘healthiest’ areas of England and Wales were 5.6% more likely to be in paid work than those living in the 'unhealthiest' areas; men aged 50-74 living in the 'healthiest' areas of England and Wales were 7.1% more likely to be in paid work than those living in the 'unhealthiest'. The report shows that how we measure health in a place matters: links between health in a place and employment are stronger for self-rated health measures, compared with life expectancy figures or mortality indicators. Historically disadvantaged areas continue to struggle: areas where people left paid work at a younger age due to poor health in 1991 were much more likely to experience this trend in 2011 as well. This disproportionately affects people in manual occupations: they are much more likely to experience ill health, and they can expect four fewer years of healthy life beyond age 50, compared with workers in administrative or professional roles. There is a correlation between health in a place and younger people being in paid employment: for example, the probability of a woman aged 16 to 49 not being in paid work was 33.7% in the 'unhealthiest' areas compared with 26.3% in the 'healthiest' areas. Those working in professional occupations were more likely to be in work 10 years later than those working in elementary occupations or doing repetitive manual labour: this gap in employment outcomes was most marked for people living in 'unhealthy' areas. (Edited publisher abstract)
Living longer: caring in later working life: examining the interplay between caring and working in later life in the UK
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
As the UK population gets older, an increasing number of workers are providing care towards the end of their working life for family members. One in four older female workers, and one in eight older male workers, have caring responsibilities. In this article, we look further at the differences between men and women who work and care, and how who is being cared for drives the number of hours a carer provides and their ability to work. Nearly three in five carers in England and Wales are aged 50 years and over, and one in five people aged 50 to 69 years are informal carers – this is the most common age group for having caring responsibilities. A substantial proportion of older workers already balance work with caring responsibilities, particularly women: almost one in four (24%) female workers care, compared with just over one in eight (13%) male workers. There is also still a societal expectation for women, rather than men, to take on caregiving roles. Most of the care that men provide is to their spouse or parents, whereas women are more likely to provide care to a broader range of people including non-relatives. Overall, parents are the most common recipient of care by those of older working ages (29% of informal carers provide care to parents). People caring for parents are more likely to be in work than people caring for any other type of person. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older workers in the time of COVID-19: the senior community service employment program and implications for social work
- Authors:
- HALVORSEN Cal J., YULIKOVA Olga
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(6-7), 2020, pp.530-541.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
It has long been the goal of many gerontological social work scholars to increase the ability and opportunity for people to be engaged in paid and unpaid work throughout the life course. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing and exacerbating the financial insecurity of many older adults. In this paper, we review information related to older workers and how they might be affected by this pandemic and its aftermath, paying particular attention to the most socioeconomically and physically vulnerable older workers. We also offer first-hand experiences from our careers working with and conducting scholarship on older workers, paying particular attention to recent actions by many in the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) network to provide paid sick leave to its low-income, older adult participants. We conclude with implications for social work scholarship and teaching, noting the uptick in technology use among older adults and the disparities that remain, as well as teaching that integrates discussions on the lifelong and cumulative effects of inequalities and marginalization and the need for additional researcher, student, and community collaborations. (Edited publisher abstract)
A silver lining for the UK economy? The intergenerational case for supporting longer working lives
- Author:
- THOMSON Patrick
- Publisher:
- Centre for Ageing Better
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper explores how supporting older workers to remain in better, more fulfilling work for longer can be part of the solution to addressing the fiscal pressures of an ageing population. Currently, less than half of the population are in employment the year before they are eligible for their state pension. The age employment gap is likely to grow in line with the scheduled rises in state pension age unless action is taken now. The paper argues that the key driver of supporting people to work for longer is to improve the quality of work. It sets out key policy options, which include: policies to prevent older workers from falling out of work – ensuring that existing initiatives and services such as Access to Work are tailored to the health profile and needs of older workers, enabling workers to make a statutory request for flexible working upon point of hire, without having to wait 26 weeks, requiring statutory reporting of flexible working requests and responses, and introducing a right to return for both carers and people with long term health conditions; policies to support a return to work – developing specialised employment support for claimants aged 50 and over, recognising the particular difficulties faced by this age group, creating greater flexibility in the benefits system to recognise that not everyone can work, particularly in the context of the rising state pension age; and policies to support workplaces that accommodate all ages – introducing age bands in gender pay gap reporting to highlight pay inequalities faced by older women in the workplace, and ensuring open access and promotion of skills and progression opportunities for all ages. (Edited publisher abstract)
Access to bridge employment: who finds and who does not find work after retirement?
- Authors:
- DINGEMANS Ellen, HENKENS Kene, SOLINGE Hanna van
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 56(4), 2016, pp.630-640.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Purpose of the study: Empirical studies on the determinants of bridge employment have often neglected the fact that some retirees may be unsuccessful in finding a bridge job. We present an integrative framework that emphasises socioeconomic factors, health status, social context, and psychological factors to explain why some people fully retired after career exit, some participated in bridge jobs, while others unsuccessfully searched for one. Design and methods: Using Dutch panel data for 1,221 retirees, we estimated a multinomial logit model to explain participation in, and unsuccessful searches for, bridge employment. Results: About 1 in 4 retirees participated in bridge employment after retirement, while 7% searched unsuccessfully for such work. Particularly those who experienced involuntary career exit were found to have a higher probability of being unsuccessful at finding bridge employment. Implications: The current study provides evidence for the impact of the social context on post-retirement work and suggests a cumulative disadvantage in the work domain in later life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Extending working life sector initiative: a review
- Authors:
- STRUDWICK Maria, KIRKPATRICK Andrea
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 67p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Extending Working Life (EWL) is needed because of demographic changes, increases to State Pension Age and the current state of under-saving for retirement. The EWL Sector Initiative was an innovative approach to employer engagement, using contracted intermediaries or ‘Engagement Managers’ to equip a range of sector bodies with information about the benefits of employing older workers. Nine sectors (construction, retail, hospitality, public administration, manufacturing, transport, health and care, finance and education) were chosen to represent a large proportion of employers and of the total workforce. Interviews took place during the end of 2011/ beginning of 2012 with the Project Manager and the five Engagement Managers who provided the support, representatives from nine sector bodies and the policy team from the DWP. The short term aim of engaging across the sectors was achieved. The extent to which sector leads were planning to promote extending working life issues after this initiative varied.
Transitions to part-time work at older ages: the case of people with disabilities in Europe
- Author:
- PAGÁN Ricardo
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(1), 2012, pp.95-115.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the labour-force transitions of older workers with disabilities in general, particularly workers’ transitions to and from part-time employment within a European context. Using the 2004 and 2007 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, the article compares transitions between employment statuses for disabled and non-disabled individuals, even after controlling for different disability trajectories. In addition, it examines the determinants for remaining in part-time work in 2007 for those individuals who were part-timers in 2004. Findings indicated that older people with long-term disabilities had a higher probability of staying in a part-time job than their compared counterparts. The authors concluded that policy-makers must promote part-time employment as a means of increasing employment opportunities for older workers with disabilities and support gradual retirement opportunities with flexible working hours.
Understanding the older entrepreneur
- Author:
- SMALL Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 16(3), 2012, pp.132-140.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Older workers facing redundancy or retirement may decide to run their own business, be that a company, partnership, or on a self-employed basis. The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the prevalence of entrepreneurial activity amongst older people, and whether such activity may be an option for them to extend their working lives. The research sample was recruited from the Institute of Directors Policy Voice database. An e-mail survey was distributed which included a series of questions relating to age and business activities. Older respondents (aged 55 years or over) were also asked to answer 3 more open-ended questions in more depth. Over 1,200 responses to the survey were received. The findings show that starting, running or continuing in individual business or entrepreneurial activity was surprisingly commonplace amongst the research sample, suggesting that there might be more older entrepreneurs amongst the population as a whole than might have previously been supposed. For those with the requisite skills and personal attributes, entrepreneurship in later life would appear to be a valid option for extending working lives.