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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age
Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728393
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314698
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Do older workers lower IT-enabled productivity? : firm-level evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene (contributor); Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805636
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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? : Evidence from two natural experiments
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor) - 2007
We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404796
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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914220
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Computer use and the employment status of older workers : an analysis based on individual data
Schleife, Katrin (contributor) - 2005 - Rev. version
This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671034
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version
In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671087
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IT training and employability of older workers
Schleife, Katrin (contributor) - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm's proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm's IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671269
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IT is never too late for changes? : analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652558
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660516