Aging & Work Facts Database

This database provides you with easy-to-access facts and statistics related to aging & work. Here you will find:

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SEARCH BY TOPIC: Age Bias and Employment Discrimination Business Strategies & Workforce Development Caregiving: Elder Caregiving: Employer-sponsored benefits for Caregiving: Other (grandchildren, spouse, dependents) Demographics: Age Distribution, Life Expectancy Education and Training According to the 2003 Eldercare Survey conducted by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), “11% of HR professionals reported their organization trains managers to und...  more Among employers participating in a 2007 national study, 27.9% responded that they permit most/all of their full-time employees to take paid/unpaid time from work for education...  more Approximately 2 of every 5 (39.7%) of the employers stated that they train their supervisors on managing a multi-generational workforce. (p. 17)...  more Among the organzations responding to a 2007 national survey, the return on investment (ROI) is measured on the following HR priorities: initiatives to increase retention (52.6...  more Approximately 25% of employers responding to a 2007 national survey stated that it is "true/very true" that early-career  (26.5%) and late-career (25.3%) employees are di...  more According to a 2007 AARP report, "updating and using knowledge" was required in jobs held by 20.4% of workers aged 50-61, and 17.3% of those aged 62 or older.  Among youn...  more Based on a 2005 analysis of data from the Displaced Workers Survey, "one academic year of community college retraining raises older males' earnings--those 35 or older--by...  more Based on a 2004 analysis of data from the 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), employers provided an average of 11.2 hours of training for workers 24 and yo...  more Based on analysis of data from 2001 SIPP data, 13.7% of workers aged 55 and older participated in employer-provided training during the previous year. In comparison, 21.5% of...  more In a 2006 survey of employers, respondents indicated that to encourage knowledge transfer, the two most utilized programs were intergenerational work teams (32 percent) and fo...  more In a 2007 McKinsey survey of business executives covering 93 countries in all the main regions of the world, 72% report that they are looking externally for the right people t...  more According to data from the 2007 National Study of the Changing Workforce, 65% of employees at mid-life (31-49 years) and 67% of employees aged 50 and older reported that they...  more In a 2007 national study, 40.3% of the respondants stated that their organizations offer training to supervisors so that they can provide career advice to employees at differe...  more According to the 2007 National Study of Business Strategy & Workforce Development, more than 50% of respondents measure the return-on-investment (ROI) of marketing initiat...  more According to the "A Work-Filled Retirement" survey, "when asked if government should have programs (such as job training or career guidance) to help older workers find or keep...  more According to the 2003 SHRM Older Workers Survey, organizations are preparing for the possibility of a shortage of workers due to the retiring baby boom generation by: increase...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that 83% of employers allow some employees to take time for education/training to i...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that in 2005,” 62% of companies also offer some measure of financial assistance f...  more The National Study of Employers, which surveyed workplaces with 50 or more employees, found that only 10% of employers offered scholarship programs/educational assistance prog...  more Respondants to the National Study of Employers indicate that leaves of absence are available to some or all employees for moderate or longer term "for medical reasons, to fulf...  more According to analysis of data from the National Study of the Changing Workforce*, employees at mid-life and older are more likely to report that they have access to employer-s...  more "According to analysis of the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development, employers were more likely to report that they have offered on the job training to...  more In the 2007 National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development, almost half (45.1%) of the employers reported that their organizations are oriented to learning, say...  more According to the 2006 National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development, 25.9% of employers stated they have increased training and cross-training efforts to '...  more Analysis of data from U.S. Statistical Abstracts shows that, "in 1960, fewer than one in ten young adults were enrolled in college. By 2005, one in four adults age 22-24 was e...  more      back to top For a print-ready file of all statistics for this topic, click here. Educational Attainment Employee Engagement & Job Satisfaction Employer-sponsored benefits (see also Caregiving) Employment Preferences Flexible Work Options (general) Flexible Work Options: Bridge Jobs Flexible Work Options: Consulting, Contract Work, Self-employment Flexible Work Options: Flexible Schedule Flexible Work Options: Leaves of Absence Flexible Work Options: Part-time Employment Flexible Work Options: Phased Retirement Flexible Work Options: Remote Work, Telecommuting, Telework Flexible Work Options: Work Redesign Gender Health: Health Behaviors Health: Health Care Costs Health: Health Insurance Health: Health Status Health: Workplace Injuries Income Knowledge Transfer Labor Force Participation Marital Status Medicare & Medicaid Mental Health Multi-generational Workplace Older Workers, Advantages of Older Workers, Costs of Older Workers, Job Skills and Demands Older Workers, Perceptions about Peformance, Productivity, Absenteeism Pensions and Retirement Accounts Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Reasons for working Recruitment , Retention, Tenure, Turnover Retirement Income & Expenditures Retirement Planning Retirement Statistics Retirement, Timing of Social Security Unemployment Voluntarism

DOWNLOAD A FACT SHEET: The following Fact Sheets contain selected facts and statistics from the database ( PDF format): "Mental Health" (Sep 2007) "Bridge Jobs" (Aug 2007) "Part-time Work" (Jul 2007) "The Multi-Generational Workplace" (Jul 2007) "Phased Retirement" (Jun 2007) "Age Bias And Employment Discrimination" (Feb 2007) "Employer Sponsored Pensions" (Feb 2007) "Age and the Labor Force" (Jan 2007) "Social Security and Older Workers" (Jan 2007) "Voluntarism Among Older Adults" (Jan 2007) "Older Workers’ Preferences for Work & Employ-ment" (Oct 2006) "Elder Caregiving" (Oct 2006)   SEARCH BY keyword: back to top