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The work reported highlights important matters beyond the traditional economic focus on labour market efficiency by quantifying some of the complex characteristics and interactions important to individuals in their choices regarding work and retirement. The book indicates a direction for workplace reform, particularly for employers addressing age management across the life course

Professor Margaret Steinberg AM
Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies
Queensland University of Technology

This research is extremely timely. The authors are to be congratulated for going beyond the usual focus on financial barriers and incentives to take into account the full range of contextual, social and psychological influences on mature aged workforce participation. I was particularly impressed with the recognition of the psychological motivators and benefits of work, which have been largely neglected in recent discussions of workforce ageing. I commend this study to anyone concerned to maintain productivity in the coming decades of increasing population ageing.

Dr Rob Ranzijn
Social gerontologist
University of South Australia

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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Executive Summary

1. Introduction
   Organisation of the Study
2. Literature Review
   Introduction
   Trends in Labour Market Participation
   Productive Ageing
   The Economics of Labour Supply and Participation
   Models and Variable Selection
   Research Questions
3. Method
   Subjects
   Measures
   Procedure
4. Results
   Descriptive Statistics
   Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
   Analysis of Variables
5. Discussion
   Introduction
   Research Question 1: To identify how to increase the participation of mature workers in the Labour Market
   Research Question 2: To identify barriers to participation
   Research Question 3: To identify the costs and benefits, price and non-price, of engaging mature workers from the perspective of the employee (supply-side) and employer (demand-side)
   Conclusions
6. Conclusion
   Introduction
   Contribution of the study
   Limitations of the current research program and directions for future research

• References
• Appendix

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