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Yamashita, Takashi; Cummins, Phylls A.; Arbogast, Annabelle; Millar, Roberto – Grantee Submission, 2018
A growing segment of the U.S. workforce -- older workers -- face challenges such as a greater chance of being unemployed for a longer period of time than younger workers and skill obsolescence in contemporary societies. In an age of fast-paced economic and technological change, ongoing investment in human capital in the form of skill training…
Descriptors: Older Workers, Job Skills, Employment Patterns, International Assessment
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Stancliffe, Roger J.; Kramme, Julie E. D.; Nye-Lengerman, Kelly – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
To begin to understand retirement, we examined age-related differences in (a) employment rates, employment hours, and rates of individual-plan employment goals; and (b) participation rates in unpaid formal day programs. We report weighted analyses of 2014-15 National Core Indicators data from 32 states. Unlike younger age groups, a similar…
Descriptors: Retirement, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Older Workers
Yamashita, Takashi; Cummins, Phyllis A.; Arbogast, Annabelle; Millar, Roberto J. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
A growing segment of the U.S. workforce--older workers--face challenges such as a greater chance of being unemployed for a longer period of time than younger workers and skill obsolescence in contemporary societies. In an age of fast-paced economic and technological change, ongoing investment in human capital in the form of skill training…
Descriptors: Older Workers, Job Skills, Employment Patterns, International Assessment