Well Being And Extended Working Life

Author : Áine Ní Léime,Jim Ogg,Martina Rasticová
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1013277953

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Extended Working Life Policies by Áine Ní Léime,Jim Ogg,Martina Rasticová Pdf

This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Tindara Addabbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1003145329

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Well-Being and Extended Working Life by Tindara Addabbo Pdf

Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement of retirement age. This book provides a gender perspective on the impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of well-being, the factors which can limit extended working life, and the working conditions of older workers. Over the course of 11 chapters the book explores factors that can limit access to paid work or affect working conditions for older workers, including care for dependent individuals, negative stereotypes surrounding aged workers and poor health. It also investigates differences in working conditions for older workers by gender compared to other groups of workers and across European countries including case-studies from Austria, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Albania and Turkey. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, gender studies and labour studies more broadly.

Author : Tindara Addabbo,Patricia Carney,Áine Ní Léime,Jeroen Spijker,Siniša Zrinščak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000781823

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Well-Being and Extended Working Life by Tindara Addabbo,Patricia Carney,Áine Ní Léime,Jeroen Spijker,Siniša Zrinščak Pdf

Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement of retirement age. This book provides a gender perspective on the impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of well-being, the factors which can limit extended working life, and the working conditions of older workers. Over the course of 11 chapters the book explores factors that can limit access to paid work or affect working conditions for older workers, including care for dependent individuals, negative stereotypes surrounding aged workers and poor health. It also investigates differences in working conditions for older workers by gender compared to other groups of workers and across European countries including case-studies from Austria, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Albania and Turkey. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, sociology, gender studies and labour studies more broadly.

Author : Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447325130

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Gender, ageing and extended working life by Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra Pdf

Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.

Author : Sheena Johnson,Ivan Robertson,Cary L. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319625485

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WELL-BEING by Sheena Johnson,Ivan Robertson,Cary L. Cooper Pdf

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest findings in the research on wellbeing and offers practical guidelines to the reader on how to promote well-being, productivity and happiness at work High levels of well-being at work are good for the employee and the organization. It means lower sickness-absence levels, better retention and more satisfied customers. People with higher levels of well-being live longer, pursue happier lives and are easier to work with. This updated edition provides an extensive overview of resilience at work and how this affects wellbeing. It introduces new topics such as what organizations need to consider about wellbeing in the context of an ageing workforce. It provides new case studies that have been conducted in the last few years including a case study on health and wellbeing in the Civil Service.

Author : Gordon Waddell,Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions,A. Kim Burton
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780117036949

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Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being? by Gordon Waddell,Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions,A. Kim Burton Pdf

Increasing employment and supporting people into work are key elements of the Government's public health and welfare reform agendas. This independent review, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, examines scientific evidence on the health benefits of work, focusing on adults of working age and the common health problems that account for two-thirds of sickness absence and long-term incapacity. The study finds that there is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical and mental health and well-being, taking into account the nature and quality of work and its social context, and that worklessness is associated with poorer physical and mental health. Work can be therapeutic and can reverse the adverse health effects of unemployment, in relation to healthy people of working age, for many disabled people, for most people with common health problems and for social security beneficiaries.

Author : Áine Ní Léime,Jim Ogg,Martina Rašticová,Debra Street,Clary Krekula,Monika Bédiová,Ignacio Madero-Cabib
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030409852

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Extended Working Life Policies by Áine Ní Léime,Jim Ogg,Martina Rašticová,Debra Street,Clary Krekula,Monika Bédiová,Ignacio Madero-Cabib Pdf

This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers.

Author : Alysia Blackham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905782

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Extending Working Life for Older Workers by Alysia Blackham Pdf

The UK population is ageing rapidly. While age discrimination laws are seen as having broad potential to address the 'ageing challenge' and achieve instrumental and intrinsic objectives in the context of employment, it is unclear what impact they are having in practice. This monograph addresses two overarching research questions in the employment field: How are UK age discrimination laws operating in practice? How (if at all) could UK age discrimination laws be improved? A reflexive law theoretical standpoint is employed to investigate these issues, applying a mixed methods research design that engages qualitative, quantitative, doctrinal and comparative elements. This book demonstrates the substantial limitations of the Equality Act 2010 (UK) for achieving instrumental and intrinsic objectives. Drawing on qualitative expert interviews, statistical analysis and organisational case studies, it illustrates the failure of age discrimination laws to achieve attitudinal change in the UK, and reveals the limited prevalence of proactive measures to support older workers. Integrating doctrinal analysis, comparative analysis of Finnish law, and the Delphi method, it proposes targeted legal and policy changes to address demographic change, and offers an agenda for reform that may increase the impact of age discrimination laws, and enable them to respond effectively to demographic ageing. Runner up of the 2017 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship!

Author : Antoine Flahault
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783038978640

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Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being by Antoine Flahault Pdf

Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being addresses critical issues of health in the context of sustainability, which need to be tackled in order to achieve Agenda 2030. Acknowledging the dramatic improvements that have been made in the past decades with regards to health, we also face disparities that remain amongst and within countries. While life expectancy has more than doubled, we are, at the same time, confronted with the challenges that come along with population growth alongside environmental change, migration, ageing, and economic disparities. In its 2018 progress report concerning SDG 3, the UN stated that, while the quality of global health is increasing, “people are still suffering needlessly from preventable diseases”, both infectious and non-communicable, "and too many are dying prematurely". Although we are on the verge of eradicating, poliomyelitis, which disables 350’000 children each year, we continue to have few answers for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. Making progress against these outbreaks with strong health systems, particularly in neglected or inaccessible regions, is deeply connected to further issues targeted by the UN SDGs such as (restricted) access to clean water, healthy food, or continuing political instabilities as well as gender inequalities. Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being, therefore, offers a vessel for a productive reflection and conversation on the meaning of and possibilities for global health, giving voice to a range of scholars, strategists and practitioners. Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward a sustainable world. Transitioning to Sustainability aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs. The book series is intended to reach beyond disciplinary, even academic boundaries.

Author : Deborah Figart,John Marangos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317983330

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Living Standards and Social Well-Being by Deborah Figart,John Marangos Pdf

Too many of the world’s citizens face impoverished living standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse. The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply efficiency. The chapters in this volume examine how economies across the globe come to understand what constitutes a living and how they can improve living standards, including balancing paid work with family life and civic responsibility. The authors provide historical, theoretical, and empirical studies of moving economies at the macro level and households at the micro level toward improved living standards. It is argued that achieving well-being and decent living standards, through work and welfare state policies, is a social responsibility. Such improvements could be delivered through basic income policies, family support, job guarantees, decent work, shorter work weeks, and support from social welfare. These issues are important for economics and the other social sciences and in particular for social economics. This book was published as a special issue of the Review of Social Economy.

Author : Jukka Vuori,Roland Blonk,Richard H. Price
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401797986

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Sustainable Working Lives by Jukka Vuori,Roland Blonk,Richard H. Price Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's workers. We focus on the school to work transition, job insecurity, job loss and re-employment and retirement. The interventions described offer strategies for implementing support in employment contracts, increasing preparedness of individual employees with public education programs or developing work arrangements and support systems in work organizations.

Author : Clas-Håkan Nygård
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783039280643

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Sustainable Work Ability and Aging by Clas-Håkan Nygård Pdf

In many industrialized countries, there is a sharp increase of the aging population due to a decrease in fertility rate and an increase in life expectancy. Due to which, the age dependency ratio rises and may cause increased economic burden among working age population. One strategy to combat this problem is to prolong peoples working career. A sufficient work ability is a requirement for a sustainable and prolonged employment. Work ability is primarily a question of balance between work and personal resources. Personal resources change with age, whereas work demands may not change parallel to that, or only change due to globalization or new technology. Work ability, on average, decreases with age, although several different work ability pathways exist during the life course. Work-related factors, as well as general lifestyle, may explain the declines and improvements in work ability during aging. A sustainable work ability throughout the life course is a main incentive for a prolonged working career and a healthy aging. Work ability and work-related factors, are therefore important occupational and public health issues when the age of the population increases. This Special Issue, “Sustainable Work Ability and Aging”, includes in all 16 original articles and one opinion paper, organized in three sections. The research topics cover wide aspects of work ability, from determinants, older employee´s coping with their work, methodological issues as well as results of interventions on promoting work ability.

Author : Chris Phillipson,Allison Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Age and employment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122170652

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Extending Working Life by Chris Phillipson,Allison Smith Pdf

Author : Nathalie Burnay,Jim Ogg,Clary Krekula,Patricia Vendramin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031112720

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Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes by Nathalie Burnay,Jim Ogg,Clary Krekula,Patricia Vendramin Pdf

This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong empirical evidence from different contexts, the impact of different life course trajectories on the risks and the opportunities at the end of career are demonstrated. The organisation of workplace and institutional frameworks which reinforce inequalities are also presented. As such the book is an essential reading for students, academics and policy makers who seek to understand how exclusion processes operate to the disadvantage of older workers in the labour market.

Author : Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447325123

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Gender, ageing and extended working life by Ni Leime, Aine,Street, Debra Pdf

Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.