Part of the answer is that labour markets work particularly badly for older workers.
Well-paid, well-educated and older workers participate at higher levels than lower paid, younger ones.
Older workers need higher pay than young, single workers because they have to support their families.
Search for a job in areas that connect older workers with employers seeking to hire them.
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Pushing back the date of retirement is certainly something over which older workers have some control.
There is a similar bias against older workers staying on after the official retirement age.
Older workers who've lost a longtime job may find themselves unemployable in a rapidly changing economy.
Older workers take longer to recover and are more likely to die of job-related injuries.
Both these attractions probably appeal more to older workers than to young high fliers.
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Often older workers need to adjust their expectations and consider jobs outside their area of expertise.
Western managers worry too much about the quality of older workers (see Schumpeter).
Chief executive Liz Fields from business consultancy the Financial Skills Partnership said keeping older workers had benefits.
As for the older workers themselves, many of them seem keen enough to carry on beyond retirement.
Severance pay is typically a month's salary per year worked, plus generous retirement pay-offs for older workers.
Seventy-four percent of respondents said Millennials are creative, while only 17% see older workers as more creative.
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In America, where employers are expected to provide health care, older workers are also more expensive to insure.
Because there are distinct differences between the work styles, expectations, and career perspectives of younger and older workers.
America already has a small scheme of this type for older workers in industries hit by foreign competition.
Only 19% of respondents said older workers post inappropriate content online, while 70% said Millennials have this problem.
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Under Obamacare, the prices will rise at the younger end of the scale but decrease significantly for older workers.
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Now he is calling for an extension of unemployment benefits for older workers.
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Even the older workers are becoming nomadic (Mr Pisarski himself is 70 and works from his BlackBerry and laptop).
In the good old days, average unemployment for older workers was half that: 3.0% in 2007, 2.9% in 2006.
As Millennials enter the workforce with exit strategies in mind, older workers are also redefining the traditional retirement years.
Millennials are also better at networking, said 73% of respondents, while only 22% said older workers are strong networkers.
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Older workers are a neglected consumer market, as our briefing on the media's ageing audiences explains (see article).
Policymakers in rich countries often worry about older workers who are laid off.
We keep hearing that older workers have a tough time landing new jobs.
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For older workers who lose their jobs, the statistics are not very encouraging.
We find that the returns to English-language skills are on average higher for older workers and for more educated workers.
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