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Ageing and Employment Policies: United States
In the face of rapid population ageing and the trend towards early
retirement, there is a need to promote better employment opportunities for
older people. Much has been said about the need for reform of old-age
pensions and early retirement schemes but this may not be sufficient to raise
employment rates for older people significantly or to reduce the future risk
of labour shortages.
Both governments and firms will need to take active measures to adapt
wage-setting practices to ageing workforces, to address the extent to which
other welfare schemes act as pathways to early retirement, to tackle age
discrimination and to improve the job skills and working conditions of older
workers. In addition, older workers will need to change their own attitudes
towards working longer and acquiring new skills. Little is known about what
countries have been doing or should be doing in these areas.
This report on the United States is part of a series of around 20 OECD
country reports that are intended to fill this gap. Each report contains a
survey of the main barriers to employment for older workers, an assessment of
the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to overcome these
barriers and a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public
authorities and social partners.
This report is based on the proceedings of a seminar and is published in
English only.
However, a French translation of the Executive Summary and Recommendations
has been included in this volume.
For more information, you can download the country note : OECD recommends
balanced approach to social security reform in the United States (pdf 36 Ko)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/35/34744509.pdf
Purchase this report on the online bookshop -
http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?lang=EN&sf1=identifiers&st1=8120
05101p1 or browse it (unprintable pdf version) -
http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/8105101E.pdf.
