The present paper analyzes the choices faced by European employers when threatened with the prospect of the mass lay-off of their employees as a result of the Great Recession. By means of a representative survey among employers in Italy, Germany, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden in...

Purpose of the study: We offer an empirically based taxonomy of the human resource policies of European employers in relation to older workers. In particular, three age-based strategies are discussed and analyzed in a simultaneous fashion: a focus on exit through retirement, workplace...