Workforce trends indicate that many individuals are working until later ages, and that older people want to stay on the labor market even beyond retirement age. At the same time we also have evidence that older workers face barriers trying to pursue their late work careers. From the workers perspective job demands, work ability and motivations change. From a macro perspective technological change and occupational change make it harder for older workers to fulfill job requirements. In turn, employers can provide possibilities to bridge these gaps to enables longer work lives. This session seeks to address older workers careers from the individual, the establishment and macro perspective and discuss how factors such as job training, job motivations, occupational changes mitigate careers. What enables longer work lives by adapting the work environment to suit an aging workforce and what discourages longer careers by incentivizing for example earlier retirements. Dr. Gwenith Fisher will serve as the discussant for the session. In this role she will summarize and integrate the findings across the papers presented in the session and offer recommendations for future research. Dr. Fisher is an expert on aging workforce issues and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and serves on four editorial boards of top psychology journals.
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