20.500.12556/RUL-177140 Age and career resilience through the lens of life course theory examining individual mechanisms and macro-level context across 28 countries Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever-evolving nature of work. While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, existing research studies offer conflicting evidence on whether older age hinders or improves career resilience. In response to this conflicting evidence, the present study employs multi-level data from 6772 employees in 28 countries to examine the age-career resilience relationships and underlying mechanisms, hence advancing our understanding of career resilience across the life course. By integrating macro-contextual factors such as the unemployment rate and the culture of education with individual-level mechanisms such as positive career meaning and career optimism, we provide a comprehensive model explaining how career resilience varies across age groups. Grounded in life course theory, our findings resolve prior inconsistencies in resilience research, contribute to bridging the micro-macro gap in HRM literature, and challenge existing age-based stereotypes. human capital personnel ageing international comparisons age career optimism career resilience country‐level context life course theory positive career meaning človeški kapital kadri staranje mednarodne primerjave true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-12-16 16:12:06 2025-12-16 16:15:06 2025-12-28 04:04:05 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 879-893 iss. 4 Vol. 35 Nov. 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 331.108 0954-5395 10.1111/1748-8583.12596 231971843 Human_Res_Mgmt_Journal_-_2025_-_Gostautaitė_-_Age_and_Career_Resilience_Through_the_Lens_of_Life_Course_Theory__Examining.pdf Human_Res_Mgmt_Journal_-_2025_-_Gostautaitė_-_Age_and_Career_Resilience_Through_the_Lens_of_Life_Course_Theory__Examining.pdf 1 D41226F642BE31A8397E4538605027CF 3fa36f6cc047892dab2ccffdb04b1e42c7271cbb037cd0c234635f0fdbec5624 767c0af9-da91-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223999 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1748-8583.12596 0 6d8097f3-da91-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223998 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0