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The Regulation of Employment‐Related Age Discrimination in the United States: Implications for Other Developed Countries

Robert H. Faley (Department of Administrative Sciences, Graduate School of Management, Kent State University)
Lawrence S. Kleiman (Department of Management at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Equal Opportunities International

ISSN: 0261-0159

Article publication date: 1 February 1985

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Abstract

Due to declining birth rates and increasing life expectancies, the developed countries can expect progressively ageing workforces comparative to those of Canada and the USA. As a result, employers will be less able to draw on a relatively inexpensive, younger labour force for replacements, and in order to maintain current employee levels there will be a greater need for the increasingly ageing working population to stay at work longer. An outline of some of the age‐related regulatory practices of the USA may indicate the way ahead for other developed countries as they try to introduce greater governmental protection of their older workforces.

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Faley, R.H. and Kleiman, L.S. (1985), "The Regulation of Employment‐Related Age Discrimination in the United States: Implications for Other Developed Countries", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010421

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