Handbook on Employment and the Elderly

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This is a wide-ranging sourcebook filling a gap in the literature about employment policies and programs for older persons. The contributors represent the perspectives of the individual, the employer, and society-at-large. Their essays consider labor force characteristics; historical trends; key features of social security, pensions, and other retirement matters; age discrimination; economic, social, and political aspects related to employment and the elderly. A lengthy bibliography enhances the use of this major new reference tool for students, scholars, and practitioners in gerontology, social work, and business.

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Two issues make this volume of special interest: the growing proportion of the population considered to be 'elderly, ' and the increasing financial cost of providing the elderly entitlements such as Medicare and Scial Security....The collection of 19 papers by many of the major players in the field constitutes a compendium of what is currently know about the labor market decisions of the elderly....The emphasis given to the productive role of the elderly in the labor market is both refreshing and enlightening, particularly since the discussion is so often framed in the context of their dependency on others in society...Reommended for all libraries.-Choice
"Two issues make this volume of special interest: the growing proportion of the population considered to be 'elderly, ' and the increasing financial cost of providing the elderly entitlements such as Medicare and Scial Security....The collection of 19 papers by many of the major players in the field constitutes a compendium of what is currently know about the labor market decisions of the elderly....The emphasis given to the productive role of the elderly in the labor market is both refreshing and enlightening, particularly since the discussion is so often framed in the context of their dependency on others in society...Reommended for all libraries."-Choice

Author Bio

WILLIAM H. CROWN is Associate Research Professor at Brandeis University and Senior Project Manager at The MEDSTAT Group. Dr. Crown's research focuses on the economics of aging, health policy, and regional economics. He has published numerous articles in gerontological and regional science journals on the economic implications of population aging and interregional migration. He is coauthor (with James H. Schulz and Allan Borowski) of the Economics of Population Aging: The Graying of Australia, Japan, and the United States (Greenwood, 1995) and coauthor (with Leonard Wheat) of State Per-Capita Income Change Since 1950: Sharecropping's Collapse and Other Causes of Convergence (Greenwood, 1990).