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Kim, Seon-Joo – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
Today's society, shaped by demographic changes and a global economy, has created different employment trends and work lives that result in adults' engaging in postretirement second careers. This phenomenon is a common occurrence in rapidly aging societies like Korea. This qualitative study examined the postretirement career transition process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Career Change
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences
Karmel, Tom, Ed.; Maclean, Rupert, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
One of the most striking features of the modern world is its changing demographic profile. In almost any policy arena, the issue of demographic change (or ageing) sits alongside globalisation, climate change and the knowledge revolution as areas which are transforming societies, including the ways in which we organise and go about our work…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Retraining, Older Workers, Aging (Individuals)