More older people are finding work, but what kind?
More older people are finding work, but what kind?
- August 18, 2016
- Research by David Neumark, economics professor, is featured in The New York Times, 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. Some résumés suggested the applicants’ age, while others didn’t. Mr. Neumark and his co-authors found that résumés suggesting an applicant was 64 to 66 years old got a response 35 percent less often than résumés suggesting that the applicant was 29 to 31.
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/upshot/as-more-older-people-seek-work-they-are-put-into-old-person-jobs.html?_r=0.
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