This week the New York Times ran an article about the difficulties older workers face in getting a new job after a layoff. Bias against older workers often involves assumptions that an older worker has inadequate technology skills and will refuse to be supervised by a younger boss. The article pointed out the...
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Age Discrimination Hard to Quantify, but It’s There
An interesting new study shows the subtle but ingrained bias against older people. As reported in this week’s New York Times, a psychological experiment showed participants videos of a man identified as Max, a white man wearing a checked shirt. The actors playing Max had two scripts for the video, differing only in one...
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Dire Future Predicted for Older Unemployed Workers
Since the start of the economic debacle now being termed the “Great Recession,” many United States workers have found themselves unemployed for long periods. A new study shows that while layoffs were was more likely to affect younger workers, these employees were more likely to become reemployed. By 2011, more than a third of older...
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Older Unemployed Fear they Will Never Rejoin the Job Market
The New York Times reported the agony of many older workers who are struggling through the recession and massive layoffs. They fear that, though they planned to work until 65 or longer, they may actually never find another job.
With the economy adding fewer jobs than were shed in the last recession, and unemployment among...
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