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The age at which a person may be considered an older worker is not definitive in the literature on this topic. Statistically, an older worker is generally considered to be a person engaged in either part-time or full-time employment who is over the age of 55. Research in this area may however include workers from 40 years of age, or refer to people working beyond traditional retirement age.
Research
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Recent publications
- Ageing and work in regional Australia: pathways for accelerating economic growth
- Changing places: mid-career review and internal mobility [Europe]
- Disadvantaged older jobseekers and the concept of bounded agency [Australia]
- Employer experiences of recruiting, retaining and retraining older workers: qualitative research [UK]
- Fulfilling work: what do older workers value about work and why? [UK]
- Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach [UK]
- Making 'good' choices: the impact of entitlement models on up-skilling later in life [Australia]
- Maximising the potential of the mature age workforce: white paper: addressing the barriers faced by mature age workers [Australia]
- Older workers and the workplace: evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey [UK]
- Retention and re-integration of older workers into the labour market: what works? [Europe]
- 'Rusty, invisible and threatening': ageing, capital and employability [Australia]
- Spotlight on ... lifelong learning for an ageing workforce [UK]
- The role of age and occupational future time perspective in workers' motivation to learn [Belgium]
- Towards age-friendly work in Europe: a life-course perspective on work and ageing from EU agencies
- What's age got to do with it?: towards a new advocacy on ageing and work [Australia]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Age counts: an inquiry into issues specific to mature-age workers (Nelson report) [Australia]
- Age in the workplace: retain, retrain, recruit [UK]
- Opportunities or barriers?: the experiences of disadvantaged older jobseekers participating in training [Australia]
- Sustainable work throughout the life course: national policies and strategies [Europe]
- Training access, reciprocity, and expected retirement age [Netherlands]
- What does age have to do with skills proficiency? [OECD countries]
- Who hires older workers?: a first look at industry variations in the recruitment of mature workers [New Zealand]
- Working longer: an EU perspective
Resources
General
- Ageing and Employment Policies [OECD countries]
- Ageing workers (Cedefop)
- ILO: older workers publications
- IZA discussion papers
- PwC Golden Age Index
- Skills for Employment: older worker publications
Statistical
- Bureau of Labor Force Statistics [US]
- Department for Work and Pensions publications [UK]
- Ministry of Manpower [Singapore]
- OECD employment rates of older workers
- Older people and the labour market [Australia]
- Office for National Statistics [UK]
- Statistics Canada
- Statistics New Zealand
