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The Effects of Work Values and Work Centrality on Job Satisfaction. A Study With Older Spanish Workers

Orgambídez-Ramos, Alejandro; Mendoza-Sierra, M. Isabel; … - In: Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics 1 (2013) 3, pp. 179-186

Since workforces are ageing throughout Europe, interest in the role of age in the workplace is increasing. Older workers with high work centrality are more likely to negotiate a relational contract and express higher levels of job satisfaction than older workers with low work centrality...

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Are Social Representations of Positive Ageing really Effective? The Ageing Process through the Eyes of Elderly

Soares, Célia; Marques, António; Silva, Madalena; … - In: Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics 2 (2014) 2, pp. 147-160

In this paper we focused on the experiences of ageing from the perspective of elderly people. Our main aims were to explore their perceptions and representations about the ageing experience and to analyse if their conceptions are closer to positive social representations of active ageing or to...

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De-Biasing the Age-Happiness Bias: Memory Search and Cultural Expectations in Happiness Judgments Across the Lifespan

Lacey, Heather; Kierstead, Todd; Morey, Diana - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 4, pp. 647-658

While most research shows increasing happiness across the adult life-span, there is a common and persistent misconception that happiness decreases with age. In two experiments, we found evidence to suggest that this age-happiness bias results in part from a biased search for exemplars in memory....

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Assessing Anti-ageism Routes to Older Worker Re-engagement

Duncan, Colin - In: Work, Employment & Society 17 (2003) 1, pp. 101-120

Measures that challenge ageism in employment are among the most prominent policy approaches towards reversing the … forms of ageism in employment. Nor is age easily incorporated into equal opportunities and diversity agendas in effective … to be successful. The ambiguity and fluidity of the ageism concept also allow scope for opportunistic responses on the …

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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

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Ageism, honesty, and trust

Schniter, Eric; Shields, Timothy W. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 51 (2014) C, pp. 19-29

honesty and trust. To investigate this aspect of ageism, we presented older adults (over age 50) and younger adults (under age … ageism is relevant to intergenerational cooperation in an aging society. …

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Understanding Harris’ understanding of CEA: is cost effective resource allocation undone?

Edlin, Richard; McCabe, Christopher; Round, Jeff; … - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2010

Harris has been a vocal critic of CEA and the QALY for over 20 years. In this paper we attempt to summarise and evaluate both Harris’ criticisms of CEA and the alternative procedures he commends to health care decision makers. Harris’ basic position is that all health benefits are...

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Demographic Changes as a Challenge to Human ResourcesManagement

Mendryk, Iwona; Dylon, Dorota - ToKnowPress

Recent years have brought a marked increase in the interest connected with an increase of professional activity of elder people. It results from demographic changes the effect of which is an ongoing process of ageing of European societies The occurrence of ageing of the population carries a lot...

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Perils, Precariousness and Pleasures: Middle-Aged Gay Men Negotiating Urban 'Heterospaces'

Simpson, Paul - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 3, pp. 23-23

Based on interviews with 27 gay men aged 39 - 61 living in Manchester, this article examines how middle-aged gay men are differentiated and negotiate relations in heterosexually defined spaces. I focus on what informants' accounts of relations in these 'heterospaces' say about middle-aged gay...

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Too old to work, or too young to retire? The pervasiveness of age norms in Western Europe

Radl, Jonas - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 5, pp. 755-771

The ageism debate has pointed to the persistence of negative age stereotypes that hinder the prolongation of working …

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