Difficulties of Integrating Older Workers into the Labor Market: Exploring the Israeli Labor Market, research of Prof. Miki Malul (GGFBM Department of Public Policy and Administration, shown left), Hila Axelrad (GGFBM PhD student), Prof. Israel Luski (BGU Economics Dept).
This reserach study examines biased stereotypes about older workers, the economic implicatoins of suched biased stereotypes, and the policy measures required to achieve efficiency in the labor market. The study deomonstrates that individual and oranizatinal characeteristics affect employers' attitudes, and strengthens the economic justificatoin for policy intervention to correct the distorted level of emplyment of older workes in the labor market.
