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    Combating Age Barriers in Job Recruitment and Training: UK Report
    TAYLOR, P ; Walker, A (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1996)
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    Too Old at 50
    TAYLOR, P ; Walker, A (Campaign for Work, 1991)
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    Ageism and age discrimination in the labour market and employer responses
    TAYLOR, P ; Griffin, T ; Beddie, F (NCVE, 2011)
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    Is early retirement history?
    TAYLOR, P ; Ennals, R (Peter Lang Publishing, 2011)
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    Promoting worker resilience over the lifecourse
    McLoughlin, C ; TAYLOR, P ; Bohle, P ; Resnick, B ; Roberto, KA (Springer, 2011)
    In Australia, as in most other industrialized economies, there is growing concern about the work capacity of older workers and their retention in the workforce against a background of population aging and efforts to prolong working lives. It is widely recognized that working later will be promoted by equipping industry and workers with instruments that can gauge working potential. Although policy makers in most industrialized nations now consider an extension of working lives as the basis of sustaining welfare systems and offsetting decline in the number of young labor market entrants, globalization and the competition this fosters present as a strong countervailing force for both government and employers. Certain groups, including older workers with few or outdated skills, and those with declining health may be particularly affected by job insecurity and long-term unemployment. Reconciling these seemingly countervailing tensions is a problem now facing a number of industrialized economies. A resilient older worker whose skills and capabilities can easily adjust as the requirements of the market shift would help maintain labor productivity growth even as populations age (Hagemann and Nicoletti 1989).
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    Planning for an ageing workforce
    TAYLOR, P ; Nygard, C-H ; Savinainen, M ; Kirsi, T (Tampere University Press, 2011)
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    Age Equality in Education and Training
    TAYLOR, P ; Peterson, P ; Baker, E ; McGaw, B (Elsevier, 2010)
    The issue of age and work has come to prominence in recent years, particularly among European Union countries, as policymakers have grown concerned with the stability of social welfare systems and labor supply due to population aging. Critical to the prolongation of working lives is the maintenance and development of skills and competences. However, older workers' participation in learning activities is rather lower than among younger ones. While this issue is being addressed by policy reforms in a number of countries, the response overall could be described as fragmented, although much is now known about what works for older learners.
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    Population ageing in a globalizing labour market: implications for older workers
    TAYLOR, P ; Jorgensen, B ; Watson, E (Shandong University, 2009)
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    The Place of Age in Organisational Policymaking: Evidence from an Australian Qualitative Study
    Brooke, E ; Healy, P ; Jiang, J ; TAYLOR, P ; Kumashiro, M (CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2008)
    This report presents findings of qualitative research in four case study organizations as part of a larger study, Redesigning Work for an Ageing Society (RW4AS) Project, being undertaken by Business Work and Ageing Centre for Research, Swinburne University. The study will identify factors transforming the nature of work and posing risks to the work ability of an ageing workforce, examine existing policies and practice in managing workforce ageing in public and private organizations and test the applicability of the Work Ability model to Australian circumstances. The research found that changes engendered by globalization shaped the organization of work and the pressures experienced by individual workers. All the organizations function in a globalised, highly competitive market, are adopting new technologies and are increasingly reliant on work intensification and casualization of labour. They had not come to terms with the need to retain their ageing workers as manifested by short term policy responses rather than proactive strategies. The areas in which ageing workers experienced difficulties, such as their competence with new technologies, changing work structures and occupational health risks indicate alignments between work ability domains and managing the vulnerabilities of ageing Australian workers in changing organizational environments.
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    Ageing and the Labour Market: A Comparison of Policy Approaches
    TAYLOR, P ; Frerichs, F (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009-01-15)
    On the one hand additional measures have been implemented, such as wage insurance, whereby an approach has been ... Comparison of policy approaches Even though the rhetoric in terms of active labour market policies against the ...