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Challenges for Unemployed Older Workers.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hauppauge :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
2013.
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| Colección: | Aging Issues, Health and Financial Alternatives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CHALLENGES FOR UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS; CHALLENGES FOR UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1 UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS: MANY EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES REGAINING EMPLOYMENT AND FACE REDUCED RETIREMENT SECURITY; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; Unemployment Insurance and Employment and Training Programs Serving Unemployed Older Workers; Structural versus Cyclical Unemployment; Labor's Taskforce Report on the Aging of the American Workforce; Sources of Retirement Income; OLDER WORKERS' EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS HAVE DETERIORATED.
- Multiple Measures Show Unemployment among Older Workers Rose Dramatically after 2007Long-Term Unemployment for Older Workers Has Increased Substantially since the Start of the Recession; Some Subgroups of Older Workers Continue to Face Longer Spells of Unemployment than Others; Older Workers' Labor Force Participation Nonetheless Continued to Rise; UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS FACE MANY CHALLENGES COPING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT AND REGAINING EMPLOYMENT; Unemployed Older Workers Have Difficulty Meeting Financial Obligations; Unemployed Older Workers Face Many Challenges in Becoming Reemployed.
- Perceived Employer Reluctance to Hire Older WorkersLack of Up-to-Date Skills and Diminished Skills; Challenges in the Online Job Application Process; Emotional Challenges That Result from Long-Term Unemployment; Older Workers Need Reemployment Services That Address Their Unique Challenges; JOB LOSS CAN DIMINISH RETIREMENT INCOME PROSPECTS; Job Loss Can Lead to Lower Private Retirement Income, Early Social Security Claims, and Exhaustion of Retirement Savings; Fewer Years of Work Can Lower Retirement Income.
- Unemployment Can Motivate Older Workers to Claim Social Security Retirement Benefits EarlyUnemployment Can Lead Older Workers to Use Their Private Retirement Savings Early; Before the Recession, Many Older Workers Had Little or No Retirement Savings; EXPERTS SELECTED POLICIES TO CONSIDER AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERS, AND LABOR HAS TAKEN SOME STEPS TO HELP OLDER WORKERS; Proposed Policies to Help Older Workers as the Economy Recovers; Labor Implemented Some Proposed Strategies to Help Older Workers, but Has Shifted Priorities since the Recession; CONCLUSIONS; RECOMMENDATION.
- AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATIONAPPENDIX I. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY; Analysis of Employment Data on Older Workers; Focus Groups with Older Workers and Interviews with One-Stop Staff and other Experts; How Unemployment Might Affect Retirement Income; Experts' Views on Policies to Help Unemployed Older Workers and Steps Taken by Labor to Help Unemployed Older Workers; Sampling Variability; APPENDIX II. WORKFORCE STATUS OF WORKERS DISPLACED BETWEEN 2005-2007 AND 2007-2009 IN JANUARY 2008 AND JANUARY 2010.