For example,
they are less likely to be in full-time employment than
younger workers (42% compared with 68%), more likely
to be self-employed (18% compared with 14%), and three
times more likely to report ill-health or disability.They
are also more likely to work in education, manufacturing
and agriculture than younger men, and more likely to be
in elementary, process and machine operative and skilled
trade occupations. Men have been hardest hit by a decline
in the demand for low-skilled workers in manufacturing of
11% between 1985 and 2005, and one in five older male
workers leave the labour market for sickness or disability
reasons,with nearly10% of older people economically
inactive rather than unemployed