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Employment and retirement of older workers in the UK

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matt Flynn

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Abstract

© The Author(s) 2016. This chapter investigates public and employer policies in the liberal residual welfare state of the United Kingdom (UK). Unlike other European countries, the UK does not have a recent history of state-sponsored early retirement incentives. Older male participation rates bottomed out in the early 1990s as the economy transitioned to one which is service industry led, but since the turn of the millennium, older worker participation rates have been rising, especially amongst those 65+. Employment laws such as regulations prohibiting workplace age discrimination, abolishing mandatory retirement, and extending the right to request flexible working to all workers have opened y opportunities for older people. The state pension is residual and there are extensive gaps in second-tier pension coverage, thus compelling older people to extend working life for financial reasons.


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Author(s): Flynn M, Li Y

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: Delaying Retirement: Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan

Year: 2016

Pages: 221-240

Online publication date: 16/12/2016

Acceptance date: 02/04/2016

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

URL: http://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56697-3_10

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56697-3_10

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781137566973


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