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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Older worker"”.
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Health of the older worker in Ireland - occupational physical and psychosocial factors in the autumn of work life
… are striving to keep people in work to an older age. However, little is known about the effects of work on an older workforce. This thesis aims to investigate the importance of job characteristics to the antecedents and evolution of cardiovascular disease and functional limitations for the …
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COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD OLDER WORKERS
… their explicit and implicit attitudes toward older workers to investigate what organizations can do on behalf of older workers. For instance, organizations may have policies that are giving preferential treatment toward older workers and reinforcing younger workers’ negative attitudes. For the …
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Aging and the labor market
… to determine the hiring conditions for older women in entry-level jobs in Boston, MA and St. Petersburg, FL. I find differential interviewing by age for these jobs. A younger worker is more than 40% more likely to be offered an interview than an older worker. I find no evidence to …
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Evaluating obesity-related differences in upper extremity and trunk muscular capacity
… years. Second, there has been a shift toward an older worker population, whose injuries often require more time away from work. Obesity and aging can modify job demands and affect worker capacity in terms of muscular and psychomotor function. However, there is a lack of empirical studies …
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The relationship of work satisfaction, organizational commitment and retirement intention of older workers in institutional foodservices
… industry. However, recruitment and retention of older workers could be a factor in controlling this problem. Therefore the major purpose of this research was to obtain information from current older food service employees to permit the determination of how various aspects of their jobs affect job …
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To work or not to work in an extended working life? Factors in working and retirement decisions
… of the industrialised world, the proportion of older and retired people in the population is continuously increasing. This will have budgetary implications for maintaining the welfare state, because the active working section of the population must fund the non-active and old population. Aim: …