middle-aged worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmiddle-agedandworker
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middle-aged
adjective
uk/ˌmɪd.əlˈeɪdʒd/us/ˌmɪd.əlˈeɪdʒd/
in ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-agedandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He pleaded that something should be done for themiddle-agedworker.
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The effect of vesting on participation is comparatively minor for middle-aged workers who are beginning to accumulate retirement savings.
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Recall that the simulation results indicate that higher match rates increase contributions of younger workers but actually lower those for middle-aged workers.
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Increasing the match rate also boosts participation, but it appears to have the opposite effect on the average contributions of middle-aged workers.
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As we shall see, middle-aged workers in many traditional plans earn much larger expected benefits than the oldest and youngest workers.
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Senior workers tend to show higher hazard rates of leaving the contributing state and lower hazard rates of leaving the not contributing state than middle-aged workers.
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Young workers tend to have higher hazard rates of both contributing and not contributing than middle-aged workers, implying that turnover is particularly high at the beginning of the working career.
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It is not only the middle-aged workers who are redundant.
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It should be taking action, particularly on the difficulties of contracts of employment, which often operate against middle-aged workers.
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This shows that the labour force is indeed largely made up of middle-aged workers.
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