Older workers – The Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work

Age and Emotions in Organizations: Main, Moderating, and Context-Specific Effects

This editorial introduces the Special Issue on “Age and Emotions in Organizations.” The Special Issue aims at leveraging theory and research on emotional aging to better understand the work-related consequences associated with employees’ age

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January 22, 2021

Older Workers are Getting Hired—but for a lot Less Pay. How to Boost your Earning Potential

Tips for job applicants to help boost salary

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It Matters How Old We Feel in Organizations: Testing a Multilevel Model of Organizational Subjective‐age Diversity on Employee Outcomes

This study is a first attempt, to the best of our knowledge, to enrich and complement the literature on age diversity in the workplace by analyzing the role of subjective age.

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Older Workers are Facing Fewer Job Prospects and Higher COVID Risks

For many older Americans who’ve lost their jobs, prospects are especially dim, their savings ever more eaten away.

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OPINION: When Workplace Bias Training Ignores Age Bias

Why I felt my employer’s ‘Managing Bias’ online training was incomplete

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Call for Papers: Aging and Technology Use in the Era of Digitization and Automation

This Special Issue will include 4 broad topic areas: work, health, product/device design, and the impact of COVID-19.

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Employers Failing to Tackle Age Bias in Recruitment, According to New Report

Our new report warns that older workers made redundant during the pandemic risk being shut out of employment as a result of age bias in recruitment.

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January 15, 2021

Ageism Could Hurt Job Prospects, Say Job-Insecure Older Workers

Older workers fear that ageism could cost them their jobs or hamper a job search

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‘It’s Never too Late’: Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives Older Women

For some, starting a business later in life is a matter of financial necessity. …women 65 and older are more likely to do so because they’ve lost a job or need more income. More than 28% of those surveyed said they became entrepreneurs because they had to.