Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the key themes in the area of the impact of demographic change on young workers and older workers in relation to education, skills and employment, as discussed in the papers included in this section. The authors have also drawn upon data from their project "From Young Workers to Older…

The 1944 GI Bill provided fully for postsecondary education, democratizing ambition and access to American higher education, and providing the idea of attending college and the financial means for doing so to a previously largely-unserved segment of the national population. The GI Bill, along with the civil rights movement and the women's…

A whole flurry of new thinking and research about young people in the USA has been stimulated by Jeffery Arnett's theory of 'Emerging Adulthood'. This argues for recognition of a new stage of the life-course between adolescence and adulthood reflecting the extension of youth transitions to independence brought about by globalization and…