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- Title
- Older workers: research readings
- Author(s)
- Griffin, Tabatha; Beddie, Francesca; Atkinson, Georgina; Billett, Stephen; Bowman, Dina; Brooke, Elizabeth; Eslake, Saul; Guthrie, Hugh; Headey, Bruce; Hogan, Michelle; Hugo, Graeme; Keating, Michael; Kimberley, Helen; McDonald, Peter; ; Taylor, Philip; van Loo, Jasper
- Abstract
- One of the significant challenges facing Australia is the ageing of the population. This challenge has led policy-makers to consider how older workers can be kept in the workforce. To help generate discussion on older workers, NCVER commissioned six researchers to draft essays on various issues around keeping older Australians engaged with the workforce. These essays, and responses by six additional discussants, were presented at a roundtable held in Canberra in May 2011. Themes to arise from the roundtable included the need to consider the diversity of older workers, the challenges of low literacy and numeracy skills for some older workers, discrimination and stereotypes, and the recognition that not all older workers want to keep working.
- Publication type
- Report
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research
- Source
- NCVER Reports, no. 2422
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Active ageing; Age discrimination; Ageing population; Economics; Education; Employability; Employment; Labour force participation; Older people; Older workers; Superannuation reform; Training; Workforce participation
- Publisher
- NCVER
- ISBN
- 9781921955488, 1921955481
- Publisher URL
- http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2422.html
- Copyright
- Copyright © Commonwealth of Australia, 2011. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au) licence.
- Additional information
- Elizabeth Brooke contributed 'Making the most of mature minds: issues, trends and challenges in making active ageing a reality', which appears on pages 21-24 of this report.
