Public Employment Policy for an Aging Workforce

Abstract

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. Unfortunately, public workforce policy has not adapted to serve older workers. Our strategic survey of published research evidence and government statistics suggests a variety of ways that employment programs could be adapted to benefit older workers. In this article, we examine the changing age composition of the labor force, the employment patterns of older workers, and offer specific improvements in public employment policy for an aging workforce.

Economic Activity in Context of Regions, Education Level, Age Group and Gender: Case of Latvia

“…Some studies have revealed that there are differences between in employment by age groups, for example, Wandner and his colleagues (Wandner, et al, 2018) have indicated that there are serious problems for older workers to be employed in the U.S., because the public workforce system is not adapted to serve older workers as they need more in-person, one-on-one services including consulting and placement services. In developed countries it is paid a lot of attention of involvement of elderly in several social activities and to those aspects are devoted many researches (Cho, Kim, 2019) including also subjective aspects.…”