Retirement Decisions and Expectations: A Case Study of Older Workers in the Motor Vehicle Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiera O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
Motor Vehicle Industry

scholarly journals A Cobb-Douglas estimation of labour productivity in the South African motor vehicle manufacturing industry

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Van Zyl ◽  
E. P. J. Kleynhans
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
The South ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Motor Vehicle Industry

The objective of the paper is to demonstrate the use of an unique extention of the Cobb-Douglas efficiency criteria for the measurement and quantification of labour productivity. The South African motor vehicle manufacturing industry is used as a case study. This paper adopts the hypothesis that one of the more important factors contributing to the spiralling unit cost in the motor vehicle industry is the sluggish level of labour productivity. The results of the measurements are indeed interesting and it substantiates the hypothesis that the low level of labour productivity does contribute significantly to the increasing unit cost of the industry. Opsomming Die oogmerk van die artikel is om 'n unieke uitbreiding van die Cobb-Douglas doelmatigheidskriteria in die meting en kwantifisering van arbeidsproduktiwiteit bekend te stel. Die Suid-Afrikaanse motorindustrie is as 'n gevalle studie gebruik. Die artikel stel die hipotese dat een van die belangrike bydraende faktore tot die toenemende eenheidskoste in die Industrie die oenskynlike gebrek aan arbeidsproduktiwiteit is. Die resultate van die metings is interessant en staaf die hipotese dat die kontinue lae vlak van arbeidsproduktiwiteit in die bedryf 'n sterk bydraende faktor tot stygende eenheidskoste en die oneffektiewe samestelling van die arbeid/kapitaal insetkombinasie is.

scholarly journals Older workers imagining retirement: the collapse of agency, or freedom at last?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Anne Skevik Grødem ◽  
Ragni Hege Kitterød
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Retirement Decisions ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Images of what retirement is and ought to be are changing. Older workers are being encouraged to work for longer, at the same time, older adults increasingly voice expectations of a ‘third age’ of active engagement and new life prospects. In this article, we draw on the literature on older workers’ work patterns and retirement transitions (noting push/pull/stay/stuck/jump factors), and on scholarship on the changing social meaning of old age, most importantly the notions of a ‘third’ and ‘fourth’ age. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 28 employees in the private sector in Norway, aged between 55 and 66 years. Based on the interviews, we propose three ideal-typical approaches to the work–retirement transition: ‘the logic of deadline’, ‘the logic of negotiation’ and ‘the logic of averting retirement’. The ideal-types are defined by the degree to which informants assume agency in the workplace, their orientation towards work versus retirement and the degree to which they expect to exercise agency in retirement. We emphasise how retirement decisions are informed by notions of the meaning of ageing, while also embedded in relationships with employers and partners.

Adaptation Trajectories of Dismissed Workers: A Critical Case Study of the Lithuanian Radio-Electronics Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110412
Author(s):  
Žilvinas Martinaitis ◽  
Audronė Sadauskaitė ◽  
Mariachiara Barzotto
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Radio Electronics ◽  
Economic Shock ◽  
Critical Case Study

This article explores why some dismissed workers adapt successfully to the changing structure of an economy, while others remain trapped in low-quality jobs and experience deskilling. The associated case study relies on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 50 former employees of four bankrupt radio-electronics factories in Lithuania. It is found that workers with ‘inherited’ skills that are deep and technical are able to enter high-quality jobs when new firms emerge, recombining the physical, financial and human assets of destitute factories for new productive uses. However, if such economic opportunities are scarce, workers with inherited broad skill sets are relatively more successful in transitioning to services from manufacturing. Further, in line with the literature of the sociology of work, women and older workers are found to face more acute challenges in adapting to the economic shock associated with dismissal.

RETAINING OLDER WORKERS: USING A CASE STUDY TO FORMULATE PROPOSITIONS ON THE ROLE OF HR BUNDLES.

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
DORIEN KOOIJ ◽  
PAUL JANSEN ◽  
JOSJE DIKKERS ◽  
ANNET DE LANGE
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Performance: Evidence from the Australian Passenger Motor Vehicle Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Bopage ◽  
Kishor Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Tariff Protection ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Motor Vehicle Industry ◽  
Production Subsidies

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the effects of trade liberalization on productivity performance of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry, which has experienced significant liberalization over the years. Our analysis indicates that trade liberalization had a negative impact on productivity growth, at least in the immediate post-liberalization period. Empirical results suggest that economies of scale and tariff protection improve productivity, while industry assistance (such as the local content and duty drawback schemes and production subsidies) retards productivity. Policy implications of these findings are that there are dividends in terms of improved productivity by encouraging economies of scale, providing tariff protection and lowering industry assistance.

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