Kommission für Zukunftsfragen der Freistaaten Bayern und Sachsen zu personenbezogenen Dienstleistungen mit Beschäftigungspotential für gering Qualifizierte 1997:"Angesiedelt sind diese Dienste im wesentlichen im häuslichen Bereich, wo vor allem Bedarf in der Alten- und Kinderbetreuung...

We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market toanalyze the effect of age on the probability to participate in different training measures.We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and thatlonger training measures are...

Sir Francis Bacon explored as a medical question the issue of how human life spans might be returned to the near-thousand years enjoyed by Adam and the Patriarchs. Extended old age seemed feasible: reports told of people living well into their centenary. Meanwhile, New World natives were said to...

Der demographische Wandel bietet Möglichkeiten zur Erschließung neuer Absatzmärkte für bedarfsgerechte Dienstleis-tungen im Alterssegment 50+. Mobile Technologien wie bspw. Near-Field-Communication (NFC) ermöglichen dabei die IT-Unterstützung innovativer Dienstleistungskonzepte, die den...

Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination inhiring. A twenty-one year-old and a thirty-nine year-old woman applied for jobs where a newgraduate was sought; men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employmentas waiters; women aged...