After work? Understanding older women’s portfolio life transitions
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 7 p. 111-119
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- Description: Chapter 7 reports qualitative interviews with older women about the pursuit of an active, fulfilling and productive retirement, and the mechanisms that promote these outcomes. Contrary to notions of the blended lifecycle, analysis reveals a stark division between paid work and retirement for many women at the same time as an ongoing commitment to socially valued and productive albeit unpaid activities that form a portfolio career. Furthermore , analysis reveals an increased sense of autonomy and control over decision making among retired women that contrasts with their experiences of paid employment.
Conclusion: public policy leadership and change for women’s work and retirement
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 10 p.147-151
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- Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Customizing women’s portfolio work and ‘retirement’ careers
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 8 p. 122-134
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- Description: Chapter 8 reports qualitative interviews with older women, drawing from the concepts of biographical work-life balance and portfolio careers. It focuses on older women who were in part-time work but who self-identified as having made a transition to retirement. Many had longstanding careers and stable networks, accrued skills and financial resources, supported a well-endowed quality of portfolio lives, whereas those who experienced ‘unbalanced’ portfolio retirement were more likely to be lacking resources from their working lives. The analysis reinforces the notion that retirement should be viewed as a process and not an event and that it is impossible to tell a single story of women's post-work transitions.
Introduction: Older women and later life transitions in industrialized societies
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions p. 1-7
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- Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Older women and the transition to retirement
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 6 p. 99-110
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- Description: Chapter 6 reports older women survey respondents’ expectations about retirement; their financial preparation for retirement; and factors that pushed them out of the workforce such as declining health and poor working conditions. Older women workers demonstrated a generally positive orientation to retirement. However, financial preparedness was a concern, with a significant proportion reporting that their understanding of their superannuation was poor. Findings with regards to self-esteem and social contact point to the need to support older women in building post-work identity and structures outside of work.
Older women in labour market transitions: leaving, looking for and moving into work
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 5 p. 85-98
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- Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Older women workers in Australia: the study
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Chapter 3 p. 53-69
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- Description: This book reports on a large mixed-methods project Retiring Women: Understanding Older Female Work-Life Transitions funded by the AUstralian Research Council and three industry partners. The project aimed to explore, firstly, transitios into, within and out of the labour market from the perspectives of older women workers, their employers and industry stake-holders across three industry sectors, and secondly, the development of policy related to the recruitment and retention of such workers in the Australian workforce.
Older women, public policy and work
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 1 p. 7-45
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- Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Older women’s experiences of working
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 4 p. 70-83
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- Description: Chapter 4 reports the experiences of older women survey respondents in terms of job satisfaction, work-life balance, perceptions of working hours and what determined these, perceptions of treatment by managers and co-workers, perceptions of labour market age barriers, and participation in skills development activities. The findings are indicative of relatively benign workplace environments. Job satisfaction was high and women generally appeared able to juggle work and other responsibilities. Working hours were a concern for some women, particularly those in casualized employment. Participation in learning and development activities declined with age and was more common among those with higher skill levels. Workplace discrimination was not a major feature of the experiences of these women.
Public policy, ageing and work, and longer working lives
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Chapter 2 p. 46-56
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- Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Teachers as older women workers: stakeholder comments
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 9 p. 136-146
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- Description: Chapter 9 explores conceptions older workers, drawing from interviews with human resources managers and expert stakeholders. Analysis revealed pervasive discrimination based on age and gender and a lack of recognition of the diversity of older workers. They are generally understood in essentialized terms as a single group sharing certain stereotypical attributes. An essentialized discourse of decline underpins representations of older workers. It is argued that the idea of the older worker needs to be problematized.
A 'new deal' for older workers in the United Kingdom?
- Authors: Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Ageing and the Transition to Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States p. 186-204
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- Description: This chapter considers the factors that have influenced the well-documented decline in the participation of older workers in the United Kingdom (UK) labour market and how policy making has responded to the new imperatives brought into focus by demographic ageing. Since the 1970s economic and structural changes linked to worldwide shifts towards liberal economic thinking have had a real effect upon traditional industries such as manufacturing, mining and construction, and on the ability of older people to sustain their position in the labour force. Demographic shifts in the UK have changed the age composition of the workforce, with the result that there has been a steep increase in the number of people of pensionable age compared with those of working age. A notable feature of employment among older workers is their rate of self-employment, which tends to be higher than for other age groups. Health considerations often play a major role in retirement behaviour. © Tony Maltby, Bert de Vroom, Maria Luisa Mirabile and Einar Øverbye 2004.
Reconceptualising work-retirement transitions: Critiques of the new retirement and bridge employment
- Authors: Earl, Catherine , Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Ageing, Organisations and Management : Constructive Discourses and Critical Perspectives Chapter 15 p. 323-344
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- Description: There is an extensive and growing research literature, particularly in the psychology and management disciplines, concerning ‘bridge employment’ which, it is argued, is increasingly occurring between the end of a career job and full retirement. However, this area is undertheorised and lacking a long view in terms of an appreciation of the wider literature concerned with work and retirement, in particular being informed by the political economy and lifecourse perspectives. Bridging the gap between work and retirement is of current concern as governments push out the ages at which people work and retire, with retirement, once considered the moral foundation of social welfare systems, being refashioned as a kind of unemployment. This chapter takes a critical stance on what we describe as the new retirement and the concept of bridge employment, questioning the motives for the emergence of the former and the latter’s utility for researchers and policymakers as a lens through which to view the evolution of work–retirement transitions.
The workforce demographic shift and the changing nature of work : implications for policy, productivity, and participation
- Authors: Earl, Catherine , Taylor, Philip , Roberts, Chris , Huynh, Patrick , Davis, Simon
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Age Diversity in the Workplace : an organizational perspective p. 3-34
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- Description: Population ageing, coupled with economic uncertainty and a shifting workforce structure, has directed the attention of public and organizational policy makers toward the potential contribution of older workers and skilled migrants in meeting labor supply shortages in ageing populations. This chapter presents labor supply and demand scenarios for 10 OECD countries and examines trends in the labor force participation of older workers against the backdrop of changes to the nature of work in an era of globalization, casualization, and, increasingly, automation. Brief analysis of each country's situation and policy responses indicates that China, Japan, and Korea stand out as being at particular risk of being unable to maintain growth without undertaking drastic action, although their areas of focus need to differ. A limitation of the study is that GDP projections used in labor demand analysis were based on historical rates and represented past potential and a long-run average of historic economic output. Future research might also undertake comparative analysis of case studies addressing different potential solutions to workforce ageing. A key implication of the study is that there is a need to take a blended approach to public policy regarding older workers in a changing labor market. Where migration has historically been a source of labor supplementation, this may become a less viable avenue over the near future. Future shortfalls in labor imply that economies will increasingly need to diversify their sources of workers in order to maintain economic growth. For public policy makers the challenge will be to overcome public antipathy to migration and longer working lives. Copyright © 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
Recruitment and selection of older workers
- Authors: Earl, Catherine , Taylor, Philip , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Geropsychology Chapter 13 p.
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- Description: In recent decades there has been a shift in labor market public policy from a culture of early retirement to one centered on hiring older workers, i.e., those aged over 50. The culture of early exit flourished in most major industrialized economies until the 1990s. Previously, older workers who left the workforce prematurely were regarded to be early retirees rather than unemployed. Their joblessness ended not with their reentering the workforce but transferring to pensions (Casey and Laczko 1989). Subsequently, there has been a policy shift towards prolonging working lives that has been generated by population aging in general as well as the aging of workforces in specific industry sectors, such as nursing and teaching.
The role of partial retirement in organizational policy making in Australia
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , McLoughlin, Christopher , Earl, Catherine
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Bridge employment: A research handbook Chapter 12 p.239-251
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‘Falling between the cracks: Older women and organizational policy-making'
- Authors: Earl, Catherine , Taylor, Philip , Williams, Ruth , Brooke, Elizabeth
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Women's Career Development Throughout The Lifespan: An International Exploration Chapter 4 p.
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Introduction: older worker in an ageing society
- Authors: Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Older Workers in an Ageing Society: Critical topics in research and policy p. 1-16
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- Description: This chapter briefly describes the changing position of older workers in labour markets. Working longer is high on the agenda of policymakers in most of the industrialized nations as they wish to minimize the 'burden' presented by the ageing of populations, namely the sustainability of pensions and healthcare systems, while there are also supposed threats to the labour supply as the 'Baby Boomers' retire and young labour market entrants are fewer. However, critical thinking on the issue of ageing and work has been lacking in current debates, in particular how policy objectives are to be achieved, at what cost, and in particular, what the role of employers and the risks for older people will be.
Older workers: past, present and future
- Authors: Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Social Policy Review: Community Development and Community Welfare p. 167-172
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Review: agendas in researching ageing and work
- Authors: Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Older workers in an ageing society : Critical topics in research and policy Chapter 18 p. 264-273
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- Description: This chapter aims to provide a summary of themes emerging from the preceding chapters and to identify fresh research agendas. It sets out lessons for the social and labour market actors and for older workers themselves in responding to demographic trends.