Prejubilaciones y segunda oportunidad: Algunas consecuencias del nuevo mercado de trabajo

Abstract

From year to year, an ever increasing number of young professionals with good postgraduate training enter the labor market in Spain. The author discusses the consequences that this economic and sociological trend has for young and oíd workers in the two-fold context of high flexibility of labor markets and frequent, computer-related, technological innovations. While new employees must deal with highly unstable and competitive labor markets, older workers may simply lose their jobs to young replacements. Governments cope with this situation either by reducing the age for retirement (e.g., in Spain and Europe) or by helping oíd people accept a second professional opportunity (e. g., in the USA).