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Good practice in the employment of older workers in Europe

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The purpose of this article is to report the results of two European projects which set out to find examples of good practice in the employment of older workers in different European Union (EU) countries. The Combating Age Barriers project was the first European research to focus on examples of good practice in the employment of ageing workers and developed a detailed classification system. The subsequent Eurowork Age project had similar aims to the first project and employed the same methodology. Before reporting some of the findings from these projects, authors Walker and Taylor will outline the European context and define the concept of good practice.

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  1. the Department if Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

    Alan Walker

  2. the Business School, The Open University, UK

    Philip Taylor

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Walker, A., Taylor, P. Good practice in the employment of older workers in Europe. Ageing Int. 25, 62–79 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-999-1029-x

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