Skill mismatch among older workers and workplace performance in Britain
Skill mismatch among older workers and workplace performance in Britain

Author(s): Lucy Stokes, David Wilkinson, Andreas Cebulla, Nathan HUDSON-SHARP
Subject(s): Labor relations, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Workers and workplace performance; Britain; labor relations; employment;
Summary/Abstract: One of the key responses to population ageing in the UK has been an increase in the state pension age, which has created an expectation that older workers stayin employment for longer. For employers, one important consideration when retaining and recruiting older rather than younger workers is the relative productivity of these workers. Whilst the empirical evidence on the relationship between age and productivity is inconclusive, the evidence for the vulnerabilityof older workers in the labour market is strong. Van Dalen et al. (2010) found that both employers and employees rate the productivity of older workers substantially lower than that of younger workers, but they have different desirable attributes and skills.

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