This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...

Gendered discrimination based on age and disability is a pressing issue, because this discrimination can interfere with the goal of lengthening work lives, especially for older women. In the United States, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit...

Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon using an equilibrium search framework in which becoming successful in the labour market takes...

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Margaret Walsh -- 1 New Entry Points from USA Women's Labour History -- Sheila Rowbotham 9 -- 2 Gendering Work in Eighteenth-century Towns -- Deborah Simonton 29 -- 3 Age and Gender at the Workplace: The Historical Experiences of Young People in...