Prolonged Employment of Older Workers: Determinants Managers' Decisions Regarding Hiring, Retention and Training

A current evalution on which individual characteristics, organisations and managers affect managers' decisions to hire older workers. Prolonged and productive employment of older workers is a necessary condition to maintain welfare and social security systems threatened by ageing populations. Yet not much is known about the factors that define the opportunities for older workers in the labour market. The current study has evaluated which individual characteristics of older workers, organisations and managers affect managers' decisions to hire older workers, offer them training opportunities and retain them in organisations, as well as the potential role of managers' attitudes on their behaviour with respect to older workers.

serie NiDi Report - Kasia Karpinska (Auteur) - Verschenen op 15/12/2014 bij Amsterdam University Press