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Table 2

Summary of literature and identification of gap

Topic of interest Key words	Key authors	Critical summary of articles	Identified gap	Research questions to address this gap
Age discrimination in employment	Axelrad et al. (2021) Engelhardt et al. (2022) Järvensivu and von Bonsdorff (2022) Koçak et al. (2022) Mok et al. (2023) Peng (2022) Tams et al. (2022) Yang et al. (2023) Zhu et al. (2022)	Age discrimination causing barriers to employment for older people is of particular concern due to ageing populations in advanced economies In addition to increased life expectancies, many older people prefer to work than to rely on government aged pensions Governments in advanced countries have raised the retirement age to address the fiscal shortfalls and lack of sustainability of aged pension payments in the longer term The way job advertisements are framed may repel older workers from applying Yet attracting and retaining older workers is essential in overcoming labour and skill shortages Anti-age discrimination training programmes are essential	None of these studies directly examine older workers’ perceptions of age discrimination or explore how marketing, management, and HR policies contribute to the problem The role of broader societal structures in mitigating or reinforcing age discrimination is also underexplored	RQ1: What are older workers perceptions about their work? RQ2: Does society have a role in diminishing age discrimination?

Topic of interestKey words	Key authors	Critical summary of articles	Identified gap	Research questions to address this gap
Age discrimination in employment	Axelrad et al. (2021) Engelhardt et al. (2022) Järvensivu and von Bonsdorff (2022) Koçak et al. (2022) Mok et al. (2023) Peng (2022) Tams et al. (2022) Yang et al. (2023) Zhu et al. (2022)	Age discrimination causing barriers to employment for older people is of particular concern due to ageing populations in advanced economiesIn addition to increased life expectancies, many older people prefer to work than to rely on government aged pensionsGovernments in advanced countries have raised the retirement age to address the fiscal shortfalls and lack of sustainability of aged pension payments in the longer termThe way job advertisements are framed may repel older workers from applyingYet attracting and retaining older workers is essential in overcoming labour and skill shortagesAnti-age discrimination training programmes are essential	None of these studies directly examine older workers’ perceptions of age discrimination or explore how marketing, management, and HR policies contribute to the problem The role of broader societal structures in mitigating or reinforcing age discrimination is also underexplored	RQ1: What are older workers perceptions about their work? RQ2: Does society have a role in diminishing age discrimination?

Source(s): Authors’ own work