Ageing towards meaningful work? Age, labour-market change, and attitudes to work in the Swedish workforce, 1979–2003

A central finding in earlier research on work orientation is that there are substantial age-differences regarding attitudes to work. Generally, more older workers describe their jobs as intrinsically meaningful than younger workers. This result has been interpreted in three different ways, the psych...

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Main Author: Johan Örestig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget 2014-11-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Social Research
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Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/2079