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The future for older workers : new perspectives /

This book provides a much-needed introductory guide to the issues surrounding pension policy, not just in the UK but worldwide, and offers a critique of some of the dominant ideas and assumptions. Noting the intense debate that currently surrounds the subject, the book explores a wider view of the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Loretto, Wendy, Vickerstaff, Sarah, 1956-, White, Phil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The future for olderworkers; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary of UK-based institutionsand programmes; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Older workers in the labour market: the demographic context; 3. The American experience of age discrimination legislation; 4. The employment of older people:can we learn from Japan?; 5. Moving older people into jobs:Incapacity Benefit, Labour's reforms and the job shortfall in the UK regions; 6. Women's knowledge of, and attitudes to, pensions.