Why older women may have a hard time getting hired
Why older women may have a hard time getting hired
- March 2, 2017
- David Neumark, economics, via The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2017
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Yet older workers, and older women in particular, face challenges getting hired into new jobs, and a key factor is age discrimination in labor markets, according to an experiment by David Neumark and Ian Burn of the University of California, Irvine, and Patrick Button of Tulane University.
For the full story, please visit http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2017/03/02/ageism-thwarts-policies-to-boost-the-senior-workforce-study-finds/.
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