Ageing and employment policies :
Andersson, Patrik
Ageing and employment policies : Australia / Patrik Andersson. - Paris : OECD, 2005 - 164 p. : il. - Ageing and employment policies .
Executive summary and recommendations -- Résumé et principales recommandations -- Introduction -- 1. The challenge ahead -- 2. The labour market situation of older workers -- 3. Striking the right balance: income support and work incentives for older people -- 4. Encouraging employers to retain and hire older people -- 5. Helping older workers to carry on working -- 6. Ensuring policies are comprehensive and coherent -- Bibliography -- List of boxes -- List of figures -- List of tables.
In the face of rapid population ageing and the trend towards early retirement, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age pensions and early retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise employment rates for older people significantly or to reduce the future risk of labour shortages. Both governments and firms will need to take active measures to adapt wage-setting practices to ageing workforces, to address the extent to which other welfare schemes act as pathways to early retirement, to tackle age discrimination and to improve the job skills and working conditions of older workers. In addition, older workers will need to change their own attitudes towards working longer and acquiring new skills. Little is known about what countries have been doing or should be doing in these areas.
926400971X
TRABAJADORES DE EDAD AVANZADA
POLITICA DE EMPLEO
AUSTRALIA
331.398
Ageing and employment policies : Australia / Patrik Andersson. - Paris : OECD, 2005 - 164 p. : il. - Ageing and employment policies .
Executive summary and recommendations -- Résumé et principales recommandations -- Introduction -- 1. The challenge ahead -- 2. The labour market situation of older workers -- 3. Striking the right balance: income support and work incentives for older people -- 4. Encouraging employers to retain and hire older people -- 5. Helping older workers to carry on working -- 6. Ensuring policies are comprehensive and coherent -- Bibliography -- List of boxes -- List of figures -- List of tables.
In the face of rapid population ageing and the trend towards early retirement, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age pensions and early retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise employment rates for older people significantly or to reduce the future risk of labour shortages. Both governments and firms will need to take active measures to adapt wage-setting practices to ageing workforces, to address the extent to which other welfare schemes act as pathways to early retirement, to tackle age discrimination and to improve the job skills and working conditions of older workers. In addition, older workers will need to change their own attitudes towards working longer and acquiring new skills. Little is known about what countries have been doing or should be doing in these areas.
926400971X
TRABAJADORES DE EDAD AVANZADA
POLITICA DE EMPLEO
AUSTRALIA
331.398