Predicting employee engagement in an age‐diverse retail workforce

JB James, S McKechnie… - Journal of Organizational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The news that the early retirement trend has been reversed and current older workers plan
to work past conventional retirement ages has been widely heralded. Managers have been …

The bridge to retirement: Older workers' engagement in post-career entrepreneurship and wage-and-salary employment

G Kerr, M Armstrong-Stassen - The Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Older workers' choice of bridging employment (self-employment and wage-and-salary
employment) was surveyed. Health status was found to be the only shared factor positively …

Deciding whether to work after retirement: The role of the psychological experience of aging

U Fasbender, J Deller, M Wang, BM Wiernik - Journal of Vocational …, 2014 - Elsevier
Due to the graying of the global labor markets, post-retirement employment is becoming
increasingly important in the 21st century. To better understand older people's decisions to …

“I want to break free”. The role of working conditions on retirement expectations and decisions

C Dal Bianco, E Trevisan, G Weber - European journal of ageing, 2015 - Springer
We investigate the role of working conditions on the desire to retire as soon as possible and
on the probability of transition from employment to either full or partial retirement, using …

The motivations, business satisfaction and commitment of career and later-life older entrepreneurs

G Kerr - Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The demographics, motivations, rewards, satisfaction, and commitment of Canadian career
and later-life older entrepreneurs were examined. The two groups of respondents exhibited …

Understanding senior entrepreneur behavior

L Martin, N Omrani - Journal of Enterprising Culture, 2019 - World Scientific
There has been increased research interest in senior entrepreneurs and their potential
contribution to the global economy. Nevertheless, the extant literature on senior …

Entrepreneurship and age across time and space

M Backman, C Karlsson - Tijdschrift voor economische en …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Studies confirm an inverted U‐shaped relationship between age and entrepreneurship. This
paper deepens the understanding of this relationship by analysing how the relationship …

Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Aging

M Backman, C Karlsson, O Kekezi - Handbook of Research on …, 2019 - elgaronline.com
There is a dramatic demographic change occurring across many developed countries in the
world today where these countries are facing an increasing share of older individuals …

Bridge jobs in Europe

G Brunello, M Langella - IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013 - Springer
We study the transitions from career to gradual and permanent retirement by a sample of
(Continental) European males aged 55 to 70 in the late 2000s. We find that only 14.6% of …

[PDF][PDF] Responsive workplaces for older workers: Job quality, flexibility and employee engagement

JB James, JE Swanberg, SP McKechnie - An Issue in Brief, 2007 - dlib.bc.edu
There are many reasons for employers to consider how to respond to the needs and
perhaps unique requirements of older workers. There are different but equally compelling …