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The Precarious Situation of Older Workers: Employability and Stereotypes The Precarious Situation of Older Workers: Employability and Stereotypes
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Human Capital: Costs, Future Investments, and Performance Human Capital: Costs, Future Investments, and Performance
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Social Capital Social Capital
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Personal Adaptability: Learning and Flexibility Personal Adaptability: Learning and Flexibility
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Identity Identity
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Before the Actual Job Loss: Age and Job Insecurity Before the Actual Job Loss: Age and Job Insecurity
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Subjective Job Insecurity Subjective Job Insecurity
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Objective Job Insecurity Objective Job Insecurity
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The Actual Job Loss: Age and the Job-Loss Experience The Actual Job Loss: Age and the Job-Loss Experience
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Manifest Functions: Financial Strain Manifest Functions: Financial Strain
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Social Status Social Status
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Collective Purpose Collective Purpose
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Social Contacts Social Contacts
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Activity Activity
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Time Structure Time Structure
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Future Outlook Future Outlook
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Well-Being Well-Being
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Physical Health Physical Health
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After the Job Loss: Coping and Unemployment After the Job Loss: Coping and Unemployment
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Stress-Related Coping Reactions Stress-Related Coping Reactions
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Symptom-Focused Coping: Social Participation Symptom-Focused Coping: Social Participation
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Retirement Retirement
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Self-Employment Self-Employment
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Searching for Re-employment Searching for Re-employment
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Job-Search Intensity Job-Search Intensity
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Job-Search Strategies Job-Search Strategies
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Gaining Re-employment Gaining Re-employment
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Re-employment Likelihood and Speed Re-employment Likelihood and Speed
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Re-employment Quality Re-employment Quality
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Explaining the Employment Gap: Discrimination Explaining the Employment Gap: Discrimination
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Conclusions and Recommendations Conclusions and Recommendations
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Employed Workers Employed Workers
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Unemployed Workers Unemployed Workers
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Future Directions Future Directions
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Related Chapters Related Chapters
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General Work: Further Readings General Work: Further Readings
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Age and Unemployment Age and Unemployment
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References References
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17 Ending on the Scrap Heap? The Experience of Job Loss and Job Search among Older Workers
Get accessUte-Christine Klehe Department of Psychology The University of Giessen Giessen, Germany
Jessie Koen Faculty of Social Sciences University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Irene E. de Pater NUS Business School National University of Singapore Singapore
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
Job loss and unemployment are among the worst stressors that people can encounter during their lifetimes, and the search for (re-)employment is often a process troubled with setbacks and disappointments. While older workers are often shielded from job loss by higher tenure in their current organization, they might be struck particularly harshly when trying to find re-employment elsewhere. The current chapter combines earlier conceptual and empirical work on coping with job loss and job search with work on employability and the stereotypes that may turn the coping and job-search process into a severe challenge, particularly among older workers. For this purpose, we first outline the situation of older workers in the workforce, highlighting their vulnerability to possible job loss. We then draw on earlier conceptual work on job loss and on coping with job loss to depict a chronological process model of anticipation, job loss, and unemployment. In this model, we also consider the manifest and latent work functions that may be lost, the subsequent consequences for unemployed people’s psychological and physical health, and the different coping options available, particularly to older workers. In the end, older workers face an uphill battle when searching for re-employment, and one of our last sections outlines some actions that older workers might undertake to face the situation more successfully.
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