Population Aging, Older Workers, and Canada's Labour Force Conferences

abstract

• The Expert Panel on Older Workers made recommendations designed to increase the labour force participation of older workers. We explore the implications that higher rates of older-worker participation would have for the overall size and age composition of the labour force, for the productive capacity of the economy, and for the incomes of Canadians. Our purpose is to assess the potential impact that increased participation of older workers might have in offsetting any anticipated adverse effects of population aging on standards of living.

authors

• Denton, Frank Trevor
• Spencer, Byron Grant

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2009

has subject area

• 1605 Policy and Administration (FoR)
• Economics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques  Journal

presented at event

• Annual Meeting of the Canadian-Economics-Association  Conference

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Economics
• Public Administration
• Social Sciences
• older worker
• participation rates
• population aging
• productive capacity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3138/cpp.35.4.481

start page

• 481

end page

• 492

volume

• 35

issue

• 4