Professor Philip Taylor

Director, Research and Graduate Studies, Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Gippsland)

Affiliate to the School of Business and Economics Gippsland

Telephone: +61 3 9902 6610
Email: Philip.Taylor@monash.edu

Research Interests

Individual orientations to work and retirement, employers' attitudes and practices towards older workers and international developments in public policies aimed at combating age barriers in the labour market and extending working life.

Selected Publications

Books:

Taylor, P. (2008) Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects, Edward Elgar.

Taylor, P. (2006) Employment Initiatives for an Ageing Workforce in the EU-15, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.

Frerichs, F. & Taylor, P. (2005) The Greying of the Labour Market: What can Britain and Germany learn from each other?, Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, London .

Book Chapters:

Taylor, P. (2011) ‘Ageism and age discrimination in the labour market and employer responses', In Griffin, T. and Beddie, F. Older workers: Research readings, NCVER, Adelaide.

Taylor, P. (2011) ‘Planning for an ageing workforce', In Nygard, C-H., Savinainen, M., Kirsi, T. and Lumme-Sandt, K. (eds), Age Management During the Lifecourse, Tampere University Press.

Taylor, P. (2011) ‘Is early retirement history?', In Ennals, R. and Salomon, R. (eds) Older Workers in a Sustainable Society, Peter Lang, Frankfurt.

McLoughlin, C., Taylor, P. and Bohle, P. (2011) ‘Promoting Worker Resilience over the Lifecourse', In Barbara Resnick, Karen A. Roberto and Lisa P. Gwyther (eds) Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes, Springer.

Taylor, P. (2010) 'Cross-national trends in work and retirement', In Dale Dannefer and Chris Phillipson (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology, SAGE Publications Inc., California USA, pp. 540-550.

Taylor, P. (2010) ‘Age Equality in Education And Training', In Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson and Eva Baker (eds) The International Encyclopaedia of Education, 3rd Edition, Elsevier.

Taylor, P., Brooke, L. & di Biase, T. (2010) ‘European employer policies concerning career management and learning from a life-span perspective', In Naegele, G. (ed) Social Life Course Policy, VS-Verlag, Series on Social Policy.

Brooke, L., Healy, P., Jiang, J., & Taylor, P. (2009) ‘The Place of Age in Organisational Policymaking: Evidence from a Qualitative Study'. pp.27-32. In Masaharu Kumashiro (Ed.). Promotion of Work Ability Towards Productive Aging. Selected papers of the 3rd International Symposium on Work Ability, Hanoi, Vietnam, 22-24 October 2007. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Frerichs, F. and Taylor, P. (2009) ‘Ageing and the Labour Market: A Comparison of Policy Approaches', In Walker, A. and Naegele, G. (eds) Social Policy in Ageing Societies. Britain and Germany Compared, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Taylor, P. (2008) ‘Are European older workers on the verge of a ‘golden age' of employment opportunities?', In Chiva, A. and Manthorpe, A. (eds) Older Workers in Europe, Open University Press.

Taylor, P. (2008) ‘European Union Policy for Older workers', In Dykstra, P. (ed) Ageing, Intergenerational Solidarity and Age-Specific Vulnerabilities, Knaw Press, The Hague.

Taylor, P. (2006) ‘Developments in European public and workplace policy for an ageing workforce', Proceedings of the Beijing Forum, 2006, Peking University, Beijing, pp. 171-187.

Platman, K. and Taylor, P. (2006) ‘Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices?', In Bauld, L., Clarke, K. and Maltby, T. (eds) Social Policy Review 18, Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2006 , Policy Press, Bristol.

Taylor, P. (2006), ‘Work and Employment: Society', Encyclopaedia of Gerontology, 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

Marshall, V. and Taylor, P. (2005) ‘Restructuring the life course: Work and retirement', In The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, Cambridge University Press.

Taylor, P. (2005) ‘Ageing and Learning in the European Union', In Lifelong Learning, Committee for Economic Development Australia, pp. 72-77.

Taylor, P. (2005) ‘Early exit and marginalisation in the British labour market', In Guillemard, A-M (ed) The New Face of Welfare, Policy Press.

Journal Articles:

Taylor, P., McLoughlin, C., Di Biase, D., Brooke, E. & Steinberg, M. (Accepted), Everyday discrimination in the workplace, job satisfaction and psychological well-being: Age differences and moderating variable, Ageing and Society.

Taylor, P., McLoughlin, C., Di Biase, D., Brooke, E. & Steinberg, M. (Accepted) Managing older workers during a period of tight labour supply, Ageing and Society.

Brooke, E., Taylor, P., McLoughlin, C. & Tia Di Biase (Accepted) Managing the working body: Active ageing and limits to the ‘flexible' firm, Ageing and Society.

Mackey MG, Bohle, P., Taylor , P., Di Biase, T. McLoughlin, C. & Purnell, K. (2011) ‘Walking to wellness in an ageing sedentary university community: Design, method and protocol', Contemp Clin Trials.

Taylor, P., Brooke, E., McLoughlin, C. & Di Biase, T. (2010) ‘Older workers and organizational change: corporate memory versus potentiality', International Journal of Manpower, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 374-386

Taylor, P., Jorgensen, B. & Watson, E. (2010) Population ageing in a globalizing labour market: implications for older workers, China Journal of Social Work, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 259-272

Jorgensen, B & Taylor, P. (2008) ‘Older workers, government and business: Implications for ageing populations of a globalising economy', Economic Affairs, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 18-23.

Jorgensen, B. & Taylor, P. (2008) ‘Employees, employers and the institutions of work: the global competition for terrain in the ageing workforce agenda', Foresight, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 22-36.

Taylor, P. (2007) ‘Older workers and the labour market: Lessons from abroad', Generations, vol. xxxi, no. 1, pp. 96-101.

Brooke, L. & Taylor, P. (2005) ‘Older workers and employment: managing age relations', Ageing and Society, vol. 25, pp. 1-15.

Reports:

Taylor, P. (2007) Employment and labour market policies for an ageing workforce and initiatives at the workplace - National overview report: United Kingdom, Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Taylor, P. (2006) Employment initiatives for an ageing workforce in the EU15: Summary, Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Other:

Taylor, P., Brooke, E., Watson, E. & Di Biase, T. (2010) ‘Is retirement history?', Australian Policy Online http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/retirement-history

Taylor, P. (2006) ‘The future of older workers', Regions, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 6-7.

Grants

HDR Supervisions

Current students:

• LYNN, Erin (PhD)
• MCLOUGHLIN, Chris (PhD)