A timely overview of European employers' attitudes toward older workers, this book closely analyzes the Dutch experience and comparative examples drawn from a range of other countries.
Wieteke Conen demonstrates that across Europe, and especially in the Netherlands, employers tend to blame higher labor costs and lower productivity on an aging workforce. As a result, they avoid hiring and--in some cases--retaining older workers, eschewing other strategies that might help bridge the perceived gap between costs and productivity. Exploring some of these alternative strategies, "Older...