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The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging

University of California, Irvine

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	Abstract

The author reviews evidence on age discrimination in U.S. labor markets and on the effects of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in combating this discrimination, focusing on the challenge of population aging facing the U.S. economy in coming decades. Combating age discrimination is likely to help in meeting this challenge by encouraging the employment of older individuals. But the author also explores how the rapid aging of the population protected by the ADEA might inhibit the ADEA’s effectiveness and raises questions about possible changes in age discrimination policies and enforcement that could enhance the ability of the ADEA to mitigate some of the adverse consequences of population aging.

First published on October 3, 2008, doi:10.1177/0164027508324640

Research on Aging 2009;31:41.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2009


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