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Age Discrimination Research Is Alive and Well, Even If It Doesn't Live Where You'd Expect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Lisa Finkelstein  and
Donald Truxillo
Lisa Finkelstein*
Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University
Donald Truxillo
Affiliation:
Portland State University
*
E-mail: lisaf@niu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115
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We agree with Ruggs and colleagues (2013) that age discrimination has been studied less in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology in comparison to gender and race. We can, in fact, recall a number of articles on either age discrimination or age diversity that state that very fact in their introductory paragraphs. Age was for many years relegated to demographic control variable status. However, there has been an increase in research attention in I–O to age discrimination and diversity issues in the last couple of decades, even if it doesn't happen to appear with much regularity in the specific selection of reputable journals highlighted in this focal piece.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 100 - 102
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013 

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