- Title
- Working longer, learning longer
- Creator
- Cummins, Phyllis; Taylor, Philip; Kunkel, Suzanne
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155867
- Identifier
- vital:11313
- Identifier
- https:/doi.org/10.1093/ppar/prv025
- Identifier
- ISSN:1055-3037
- Abstract
- Countries around the world, both more and less developed, are experiencing shifts in age structure. Life expectancies have increased while fertility rates have declined, resulting in a greater proportion of the world’s population in older age groups and a smaller portion in traditional working age groups ( Bloom, Boersch-Supan, McGee, & Seike, 2011 ). Delaying retirement and increasing labor force participation at older ages could increase gross domestic product while also benefiting national wealth and public debt ( Eberstadt & Hodin, 2014 ; Franklin, 2014 ; Ogawa & Matsukura, 2005 ). In an effort to maintain continued economic growth and ensure the adequacy of pensions, many member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have recently begun to implement policies aimed at encouraging those in the 55+ age group to remain in the labor force as a means to increase overall participation rates ( European Commission, 2013 ).
- Relation
- Public Policy and Aging Report Vol. 25, no. 4 (2015), p. 120-124
- Rights
- Copyright Oxford University Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Life expectancy at pension age; Labor force participation; Workforce development; 1605 Policy and Administration
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