The first millennials turn 40 on Jan. 1. That’s old enough to sue for age discrimination.
The first millennials turn 40 on Jan. 1. That’s old enough to sue for age discrimination.
- December 29, 2020
- David Neumark, economics, The Washington Post, MSN, Dec. 29, 2020
In a recent analysis published in the Journal of Political Economy, Button and collaborators David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine and Ian Burn of the University of Liverpool sent U.S. employers more than 40,000 résumés and totaled the responses they got by age. By age 50, they found, women were getting significantly fewer responses than their younger peers. Fifty-year-old men, on the other hand, seemed to face no age penalty. But by age 65, widespread age discrimination set in as job-seekers of both genders saw a sharp drop in callbacks.
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/29/millennial-age-discrimination/.
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