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Millennials, Media, and Research: Ageism and the Younger Worker

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Traditionally, employment concerns of ageism in the USA have focused on individuals over the age of 40. Indeed, the most common research on ageism, considered in this chapter as discriminatory acts targeting specific age groups (Palmore 1999), examines topics like the protection of older workers (Rothenberg and Gardner 2011), whether discrimination of older workers is intentional or unintentional, subsequent effects on employee attitudes (James et al. 2013), and the relationship between discrimination of older workers and intended retirement age (Bayl-Smith and Griffin 2014). Furthermore, US legislation focuses its protection against age discrimination solely on individuals over the age of 40, as is evident from the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. Despite the parameters of the ADEA, ageism is not limited to those who are 40 and older.

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    Dependent on what range of birth years Millennials are considered to cover.

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Nadler, J.T., Morr, R., Naumann, S. (2017). Millennials, Media, and Research: Ageism and the Younger Worker. In: Parry, E., McCarthy, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46781-2_17

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