Barriers to Training for Older Workers and Possible Policy Solutions
The report results from a project commissioned in the context of the
International Year of Older Persons.
Its objectives were to report on barriers facing older workers, in
obtaining and benefiting from training. Finding that older workers
participate less in training than younger cohorts the report identifies
six barriers that older people face in accessing training.
The report concludes with a discussion of some broad policy options to
address the identified barriers to training.
The report includes:
- a comprehensive summary of relevant literature;
- a data analysis focused particularly on the ABS surveys of
education and training experience for 1989, 1993 and 1997 and the
1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS) and an
analysis of the (limited) data on perceived barriers to
training;
- findings of a number of focus groups: and
- three enterprise case studies
Author(s) : Mark Wooden, Adriana VandenHeuvel and Mark Cully
National Institute of Labour Studies, Inc (NILS) Richard Curtain;
Curtain Consulting
Barriers to Training for Older Workers
and Possible Policy Solutions Report
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