Closing the age gap? Age, skills and the experience of work in Great Britain.

Autor/in	Felstead, Alan
Titel	Closing the age gap? Age, skills and the experience of work in Great Britain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Annäherung des altersbedingten Unterschieds? Lebensalter, Qualifikationen und Berufserfahrung in Großbritannien.
Quelle	In: Ageing & society, 30 (2010) 8, S. 1293-1314 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-686X; 1469-1779
DOI	10.1017/S0144686X10000681
Schlagwörter	Erfahrungswissen; Bildungsmotivation; Arbeitsintensität; Arbeitsplatz; Arbeitsqualität; Berufliche Qualifikation; Berufserfahrung; Qualifikationsanforderung; Altersadäquater Arbeitsplatz; Weiterbildung; Altern; Mittleres Lebensalter; Tätigkeitsfeld; Junger Erwachsener; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Populations across Europe are ageing as death rates among the old and fertility rates among the young fall. This produces a number of long-term challenges for national governments - most notably, coping with the increased demand for social services, pensions and benefits that must be funded by a declining proportion of working adults. One policy response has been to extend people's working lives, but we know relatively little about the skills and employment experiences of older workers and how these compare with younger workers. This paper sheds new light on this issue by examining whether older workers do less well than their younger counterparts in terms of the skills of the jobs they hold, the quality of their working lives, their commitment to their current employer and to employment in general, and their attitudes towards and experiences of training. The paper also assesses whether these age gaps have closed over time. The empirical evidence for the paper is from five separate but comparable surveys carried out in 1986, 1992, 1997, 2001 and 2006. Taken together, the five surveys provide information on the employment experiences of over 22,000 workers in Great Britain. This allows us to chart whether we are witnessing the disappearance of at least some of the age divisions in the labour market." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1986 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/2