scholarly journals Ageism and Age Discrimination in the Labour Market: A Macrostructural Perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Stypińska ◽  
Pirjo Nikander
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Discrimination

A field experiment to study sex and age discrimination in the Madrid labour market

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío Albert ◽  
Lorenzo Escot ◽  
José Andrés Fernández-Cornejo
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Discrimination

scholarly journals Persons of Pre-Retirement Age in the Labour Market: Employment Problems and Support Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1178-1192
Author(s):  
Natalya A. Chernykh ◽  
Anna N. Tarasova ◽  
Andrey E. Syrchin
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Support Measures ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
The Government

The problem of age discrimination in the labour sector has become even more relevant, as the increase in the retirement age and the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia reinforce ageism. The article aims to assess the incidence of age discrimination in the labour market of the Sverdlovsk Region and examine employers’ behaviour towards people nearing retirement. The mixed methodology includes quantitative (analysis of statistics, questionnaire survey, content analysis) and qualitative (in-depth interviews with employers) research methods. While in the 1990s age discrimination was evident and expressed in the exclusion of older workers from the employment sector, now age discrimination is latent and has different manifestations. The results showed that people aged over 45 have less job opportunities in the labour market. Thus, most of them choose to maintain employment. This strategy, however, does not protect against other discriminatory practices such as displacement to less paid positions, reduced pay rate, etc. This situation leads to the decrease in the average wage of workers aged 50-55 by approximately 25%. We can conclude that employers did not change their behaviour and continue using discriminatory practices to maximise the return on human capital, shifting the risks of pension reform to employees. The government is trying to smooth over the differences between the effectiveness of the regional economic system, focused on maximising the use of regional human resources, and the effectiveness of individual organisations by protecting labour rights and promoting the employment of people nearing retirement. However, the government support measures mainly focus on training or retraining of people aged over 50, while employers lack economic incentives to reconsider their attitude towards older workers. Thus, we recommend developing governmental mechanisms for encouraging employers to change their personnel policy concerning employees aged over 50.

scholarly journals Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn Baert ◽  
Jennifer Norga ◽  
Yannick Thuy ◽  
Marieke Van Hecke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Discrimination

Minimum wages, training wages and youth employment

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (1/2/3) ◽  
pp. 415-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mangan ◽  
John Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Youth Labour Market ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
The Relationship

High rates of youth unemployment, worldwide, have led governments to advocate a range of policies designed to increase job offers to young workers. For example, the Australian Government is currently introducing a system of “training wages” which will see effective youth wages set well below adult award wages for a designated training period. This policy is designed to simultaneously increase the human capital of young workers as well as help to overcome the initial barriers to entry into the labour market. However, youth‐specific wages have been criticized on the basis of age discrimination and on equity grounds. Also, some US data question the employment‐boosting potential of reduced minimum youth wages. In this paper recent international findings on the relationship between youth wages and employment are presented and compared with empirical tests of the relationship using labour market data for Australia as a whole as well as the State of Queensland. The results are used to examine the likely impact of the introduction of the training wage on the youth labour market in Australia and to provide further generalizations on the wider issue of employment and youth‐specific wages.

Introduction: Themed section on Age, Employment and Policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Platman ◽  
Philip Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Pension Systems ◽  
The Usa

Older workers have moved up the policy agenda within the industrialised nations. In the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, policy-making in much of the European Union emphasised the virtues of early retirement, partly as a response to high levels of unemployment. Since the late 1990s, there has been an increasing emphasis on overcoming age barriers in the labour market and on extending working life. This has been driven by concerns over ageing and shrinking labour forces, the sustainability of public pension systems, evidence of age discrimination in the labour market and the potential influence of the ‘grey’ voter. By contrast in the USA, the pronounced trend towards ‘early exit’ which has characterised Europe never existed. This is even more the case in Japan.

Career development and older people

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Lyn Barham
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The Uk ◽  
State Pension ◽  
The Impact

This article explores career development support offered to, and used by, older people since 2000. The context includes changes in age discrimination legislation and state pension entitlement, which intertwine in their effect on labour market participation. Career development services have changed, with a marked divergence between the fragmented delivery in England and the all-age services elsewhere in the UK. Initiatives have been piloted, judged successful, but not robustly pursued. The article argues that rhetoric outruns resources and delivery, and contemplates the additional complication of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people and the economy.

scholarly journals Getting grey hairs in the labour market. An alternative experiment on age discrimination

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 86-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn Baert ◽  
Jennifer Norga ◽  
Yannick Thuy ◽  
Marieke Van Hecke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Age Discrimination

scholarly journals Comparative Discrimination Law: Age as a Protected Ground

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-99
Author(s):  
Lucy Vickers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Age Discrimination ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
The Law

AbstractThis comparative review of age as a protected ground in discrimination law explores the underpinning questions and themes related to two main dimensions of age discrimination. The first dimension is structural, economic and labour market driven, whereby age is used to allocate a range of rights, obligations and benefits within society. The second is the social justice and equality dimension, in which age is understood as an aspect of individual identity that is worthy of protection against indignity or detriment. The review then considers the law on age discrimination in a number of jurisdictions, the EU law, the UK, Sweden, USA, Canada and South Africa, and assesses the extent to which the underpinning questions explain the developing case law.

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