Examines the changing face of work and retirement as economies face the prospect of ageining workforces. Reviews the status of policymaking concerned with age and employment and how it needs to be adapted to the changing circumstances and characteristics of individuals and societies...

Facing the demographic challenge, an increasing healthy life expectancy and the need of organisations for experience and competencies, the focus of the presented empirical survey is on the workforce capacity of older persons beyond formal retirement age in good mental and physical health. As...

Health problems and perceived consequences on work; Age and frequency of three periarticular afflictions; Some effects of articular problems in assembly line workers(airplanes)...

Pension age, Longevity Trends, Morbidity Trends, Occupational morbidity; Health in later working life; Conclusions...

I would like to thank the organisers for their invitation and for giving me the opportunity to share with you the way a professional organisation sees age management in enterprises. The Swiss Association of Financial Employees (Swiss SEC) is the largest Swiss Oorganisation covering employees...

While the European population grew older, the avergae effective exit age from the labour market has fallen dramatically during recent decades, mainly due to the development of pre- and early retirement systems in an effort to combat youth unemployment...

The UK workforce is becoming older and many people over 50 years want and need to continue working. Limited knowledge is available regarding their needs or the organisational issues that will arise. Similarly, there is a paucity of information regarding current work system design for older...

This article analyzes optimal job design in a repeated principal-agent relationship when there is only one contractible and imperfect performance measure for three tasks whose contribution to firm value is nonverifiable. The tasks can beassigned to either one or two agents. Assigning an...

This paper analyzes optimal job design in a repeated principal-agent relationship when there is only one contractible and imperfect performance measure for three tasks whose contribution to firm value is non-verifiable. The tasks can be assigned to either one or two agents. Assigning an...