What determines the perceived productivity of the older worker and how does this
perception compare to the perception of the productivity of the younger worker? In this study …

Factorial Survey Analysis (FSA) is an analytical tool that presents respondents with fictional
situations (“vignettes”) to be rated or judged. In this paper we study the use of FSA in labour …

Delaying mandatory retirement age is one of the measures that governments across Europe
propose to combat future labour force shortages. Although a growing number of older …

Purpose: Top managers guide organizational strategy and practices, but their role in the
employment of older workers is understudied. We study the effects that age-related …

Empirical research on type of education shows that vocational education is advantageous
early in the career but that general education may be of benefit later on. To what degree this …

Purpose–The central theme of this article is early retirement intentions and burnout among
older workers. The paper aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between the …

Retirement is characterised as a dynamic process that has several different outcomes, from
early retirement to re-entry to the labour force. Recent studies of the Dutch population show …

The core research questions addressed in this paper are: What factors influence human
resource (HR) professionals in deciding whether to approve training proposals for older …

Various studies have shown that temporary workers participate less in training than those on
permanent contracts. This paper investigates whether there is a difference in employer …

Beginning from a review of the literature on ageing, the paper: outlines ageing trends and
discriminatory behaviours against older workers in Italy; identifies patterns in the age …