Research on Employers’ Attitude Towards Elderly Workers

Abstract

The goal of this research is to show that in the current Russian situation of dynamic aging of the population, in which pensioners account for almost a third of the country’s population, government participation in creating jobs for senior people and ensuring their preservation are essential. This is impossible without the state participation. There are two types of measures to influence employers in this matter: “restrictive” and “incentive”. The governments of most foreign countries faced with this problem are introducing “restrictive” measures. However, there is a very effective experience of countries applying a combination of “restrictive” and “stimulating” measures. Russian employers, on their turn, request Government “incentive” measures, which give the right to tax benefits or subsidies to employers who employ pensioners, but do not deny the effectiveness of “restrictive” measures too.