Stay; go or pause: older workers' employment decisions
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2012
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Perera, S.
Sardeshmukh, S.R.
Kulik, C.T.
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Werner, S.
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Proceedings of the 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, 2012 / Werner, S. (ed./s), pp.1-17
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26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference - ANZAM (5 Dec 2012 - 7 Dec 2012 : Perth, Australia)
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Increases in the proportion of older workers in the labour market have put pressure on organisations to attract, engage and retain older workers. Changes in the macroeconomic context simultaneously encourage these employees to remain longer in the labour market. We interviewed older workers who had recently left employment to explore their different employment decisions . We identified three distinct decision choices: stay, leave or take a break from the labour market. Ongoing work issues that led to dissatisfaction as well as discrete events (shocks) influenced the se decisions. Our results suggest that employment decisions of older workers are more complex than suggested by previous research and also highlight the role of shocks in their employment decisions.
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