This CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEbrief summarises findings from CASEpaper 19, The Decline of Employment Among Older People in Britain, by Nigel Campbell, which can be downloaded at http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper19.pdf

In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the iquest;oldiquest; universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings. Among other results, we find that there are significant differences in the...

Older men have experienced the largest falls in employment over the last twenty years. Two-fifths of men aged between 55 and 65 are without work, compared to one-fifth in 1979, equivalent to 600,000 fewer jobs. Older women have not shared in the general rise of female employment. This paper...