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

by Kasia Karpińska (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Kasia Karpińska has a Master of Arts degree in Sociology from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland) and a Master of Science degree in Sociology and Social Research from Utrecht University. The present study was conducted at the Utrecht University School of Economics (USE, Utrecht) and at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI, the Hague).