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Ageing population is one of the demographic processes typical for contemporary society. Both nations and organizations should therefore recognize the significance of age management, in other words, of taking care and empowering older employees to add value. The paper deals with age management concept both on theoretical and empirical level. In the theoretical part, age management is explored through definition, stimuli, participants and activities of age management, as well as explication of early retirement factors. Empirical part of the paper presents research results about the potential early retirement factors of 182 respondents. At the end of the paper, based on both theoretical and empirical findings, athe model for effective age management in Croatian organizations is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last inter-census period, between 1991 and 2001, Rijeka recorded population decrease for the first time after World War II as the result of negative natural movement and negative net migration. At the same time the number of inhabitants in the suburban region increased owing exactly to in-migration. Besides migration characteristics analysis of the population of the city and its suburban region based on the data of previous censuses, especially on that in 2001, basic results of the empirical research conducted in 2006 by the way of questionnaire method on the sample of 411 respondents in four settlements in the Rijeka suburban region are presented in the paper. The analysis of respondents' replies to four questions regarding reasons for out-migration from their previous place of residence and settling in the Rijeka suburban region settlements points to solving housing problem as the main push factor of out-migration and main pull factor of in-migration to suburbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]