[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:what-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Felderly-workers-in-the-netherlands-feel-wanted":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},5551,"elderly-workers-in-the-netherlands-feel-wanted","Elderly workers in the Netherlands feel wanted - May 1, 2009",null,"","\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Felderly-workers-in-the-netherlands-feel-wanted","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2026-03-23T09:19:02.805691+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F5551\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"What We Do","what-we-do",{"title":20,"slug":21},"News and Stories","news-stories",{"title":23,"slug":24},"News","news",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2009",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Felderly-workers-in-the-netherlands-feel-wanted\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2026-04-02T22:39:38.632286+02:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\n\u003Cp>Amsterdam - Good news for countries with a rapidly\r\naging work force: Dutch workers over 50 don’t feel discriminated\r\nagainst by their employers vis-à-vis their younger colleagues. They\r\nthink they deserve their earnings, they are offered training\r\nopportunities like everybody else – they feel. And they feel (almost)\r\njust as wanted by their boss than younger employees: 6 out of 10\r\nagainst an average of 7 out of 10. They know however to be less\r\nproductive, slower, more often on sick leave or on holiday than their\r\nyounger colleagues. The younger employees add to this picture that\r\ntheir elder colleagues are slower and given physically easier tasks.\r\nBut they don’t seem to mind so much. This outcome of a recent\r\nWageIndicator survey of 12,000 means that it should not be too\r\ndifficult to promote elderly workers’ continued participation in the\r\neconomy till the age of 65.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contrary however to the well established collective practice that\r\nearnings increase with age, half of the elderly Dutch workers hold that\r\nthey don’t earn more than their younger colleagues. \u003Ca class=\"internal-link\" data-linktype=\"internal\" data-old_url=\"resolveuid\u002F22e77b1b17e74ec8aaf839502c0fff7f\u002F2009\" data-val=\"22e77b1b17e74ec8aaf839502c0fff7f\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fpublications\u002F2009\" title=\"2009\">Full report\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]