Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis
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Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then traces the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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“The imbalance in pre-training data can lead to imbalances during model training (Liu et al., 2024), resulting in biases against certain demographic groups, such as different genders (Wan et al., 2023), ages (Macnicol, 2006), and various languages (Jiao et al., 2023;Bang et al., 2023).”
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- Authors
- Macnicol, J.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Macnicol, John
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006-01-12
- OpenAlex
- W4289784019
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 13.73
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- age discrimination, ageism, employment discrimination, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, intergenerational equity, old age, working life extension, retirement age, work capacity, population aging, Great Britain
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