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