More people are working for longer than ever – but they are being forced into ‘old people’ jobs
More people are working for longer than ever – but they are being forced into ‘old people’ jobs
- August 18, 2016
- Research by David Neumark, economics professor and ESSPRI dirctor, is featured in the National Post, Aug. 18, 2016
Using a method of uncovering discrimination well known in economics, David Neumark,
an economist at the University of California, Irvine, led a study that sent out 40,000
fake résumés to employers who had posted openings. … Neumark and his co-authors found
that résumés that suggested an applicant age 64 to 66 received a response 35 per cent
less often than résumés that suggested that the applicant was 29 to 31.
For the full story, please visit http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/more-people-are-working-for-longer-than-ever-but-they-are-being-forced-into-old-people-jobs.
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