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1 online resource (140 pages) |
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Aging Issues, Health and Financial Alternatives |
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Aging Issues, Health and Financial Alternatives
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CHALLENGES FOR UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS; CHALLENGES FOR UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1 UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS: MANY EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES REGAINING EMPLOYMENT AND FACE REDUCED RETIREMENT SECURITY; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND; Unemployment Insurance and Employment and Training Programs Serving Unemployed Older Workers; Structural versus Cyclical Unemployment; Labor's Taskforce Report on the Aging of the American Workforce; Sources of Retirement Income; OLDER WORKERS' EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS HAVE DETERIORATED |
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Multiple Measures Show Unemployment among Older Workers Rose Dramatically after 2007Long-Term Unemployment for Older Workers Has Increased Substantially since the Start of the Recession; Some Subgroups of Older Workers Continue to Face Longer Spells of Unemployment than Others; Older Workers' Labor Force Participation Nonetheless Continued to Rise; UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS FACE MANY CHALLENGES COPING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT AND REGAINING EMPLOYMENT; Unemployed Older Workers Have Difficulty Meeting Financial Obligations; Unemployed Older Workers Face Many Challenges in Becoming Reemployed |
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Perceived Employer Reluctance to Hire Older WorkersLack of Up-to-Date Skills and Diminished Skills; Challenges in the Online Job Application Process; Emotional Challenges That Result from Long-Term Unemployment; Older Workers Need Reemployment Services That Address Their Unique Challenges; JOB LOSS CAN DIMINISH RETIREMENT INCOME PROSPECTS; Job Loss Can Lead to Lower Private Retirement Income, Early Social Security Claims, and Exhaustion of Retirement Savings; Fewer Years of Work Can Lower Retirement Income |
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Unemployment Can Motivate Older Workers to Claim Social Security Retirement Benefits EarlyUnemployment Can Lead Older Workers to Use Their Private Retirement Savings Early; Before the Recession, Many Older Workers Had Little or No Retirement Savings; EXPERTS SELECTED POLICIES TO CONSIDER AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERS, AND LABOR HAS TAKEN SOME STEPS TO HELP OLDER WORKERS; Proposed Policies to Help Older Workers as the Economy Recovers; Labor Implemented Some Proposed Strategies to Help Older Workers, but Has Shifted Priorities since the Recession; CONCLUSIONS; RECOMMENDATION |
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AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATIONAPPENDIX I. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY; Analysis of Employment Data on Older Workers; Focus Groups with Older Workers and Interviews with One-Stop Staff and other Experts; How Unemployment Might Affect Retirement Income; Experts' Views on Policies to Help Unemployed Older Workers and Steps Taken by Labor to Help Unemployed Older Workers; Sampling Variability; APPENDIX II. WORKFORCE STATUS OF WORKERS DISPLACED BETWEEN 2005-2007 AND 2007-2009 IN JANUARY 2008 AND JANUARY 2010 |
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APPENDIX III. ADDITIONAL FIGURE NOTES FOR EMPLOYMENT FIGURES, INCLUDING STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TESTS |
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Older unemployed -- United States
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Older people -- Employment -- United States
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Retirement income -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Older people -- Employment
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Older unemployed
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Retirement income
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Stanley L
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| ISBN |
9781622573684 |
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1622573684 |
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