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Towards the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through Engineering Training for Labor Market Reintegration of Older Workers

Applied Sciences, 2022
The inclusion of training in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education is essential to achieve them. In addition, labor market reintegration or improvement of older workers is a goal that an increasing number of people have set for ...
Pedro J. Zarco-Periñán, Fco. Javier Zarco-Soto   +1 more
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Public Employment Policy for an Aging Workforce

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2018
Americans are working longer. For many older workers, employment earnings are essential for self-sufficiency. When older workers are forced to change jobs, they suffer bigger earnings losses and take longer to find new jobs than prime-age workers ...
Stephen A. Wandner PhD, David E. Balducchi MPA, Christopher J. O’Leary PhD   +2 more
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Please Don’t Look at Me That Way. An Empirical Study Into the Effects of Age-Based (Meta-)Stereotyping on Employability Enhancement Among Older Supermarket Workers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
At present, individuals increasingly have to take ownership of their working lives. This situation requires them to self-manage and plan their careers. However, individuals’ career management does not happen in a vacuum.
Pascale Peters, Pascale Peters, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden, Daniel Spurk, Ans De Vos, Renate Klaassen   +8 more
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From psychological to digital disengagement: exploring the link between ageism and the ‘grey digital divide’

Romanian Journal of Communications and Public Relations, 2016
The need for digital literacy is apparent in today’s workplace, driven by strong pressures for constant technological innovation. Previous studies have shown that although older workers make up (and will make up) a great proportion of the workforce ...
Martine Lagacé, Houssein Charmarkeh, Radamis Zaky, Najat Firzly   +3 more
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Grieving for Job Loss and Its Relation to the Employability of Older Jobseekers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Introduction: Loss of employment is an experience that is lived and interpreted differently depending on a series of individual variables, including the psychological resources available to the affected person as well as their perception of their degree ...
José Antonio Climent-Rodríguez, Yolanda Navarro-Abal, María José López-López, Juan Gómez-Salgado, Juan Gómez-Salgado, Marta Evelia Aparicio García   +5 more
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Employment and Happiness of the Older People in Romania and the Visegrád Countries: Analysis of the European Quality of Life Surveys

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2021
We used the last three waves of the European Quality of Life Surveys to analyze the happiness of older workers in Romania and the Visegrád countries.
Berde Éva, Tőkés László
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Self-Employment in Later Life: How Future Time Perspective and Social Support Influence Self-Employment Interest

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
For older workers, self-employment is an important alternative to waged employment. Drawing on social learning theory and social cognitive career theory we examine how attitudes toward one’s own aging, future time perspective (captured by perceived time ...
Valerie Caines, Joanne Kaa Earl, Prashant Bordia   +2 more
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Le partage d’emploi entre générations. Analyse des effets régulateurs et redistributifs de la réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l’emploi des jeunes

Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2014
This article analyses the impact of policies reducing work time at the end of careers on the employment of younger generations. In the 1970’s, early retirements for older wor­kers were fostered in the aim of allowing the entry of young people into ...
Jacques Wels
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A meta-narrative review of research traditions on hidden workers in aging population for transdisciplinary implementation research

Frontiers in Public Health
Hidden workers are defined as the three vulnerable subgroups of workers: the underemployed, the unemployed, and the discouraged workers. Hidden workers indeed the group with multiple identities; a transitioning retiree, jobseeker, caring for some, who ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Le développement de l’activité des salariés âgés : l’environnement sociotechnique comme ressource au métier d’agent de circulation

Activités, 2016
Understanding the conditions for the integration of ICT into the professional activity of older workers is an important social issue. In this article based on the study of the activity of rail traffic officers, we propose to apprehend the psychosocial ...
Florence Cros, Marc-Éric Bobillier Chaumon, Bruno Cuvillier   +2 more
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