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An intra-firm perspective on wage profiles and employment of older workers with special reference to human capital and deferred compensation

Pfeifer, Christian - 2009

Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do not hire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants are explored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective, such adjustments might lead to adverse...

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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012

We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...

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Developmental proactivity and professional ability as older workers' employability resources : a longitudinal study explaining career events

Roobol, Conny; Pruijt, Hans; Koster, Ferry; Leijten, … - In: The international journal of business science & applied … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 64-88

This four-year longitudinal study examines how two facets of employability - professional ability and developmental proactivity - are linked to career events among workers ages 45 years and older. We construe employability as a personal resource that predicts a higher likelihood of experiencing...

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Determinants of involuntary employment in Europe

Sohier, Lieze; Van Ootegem, Luc; Verhofstadt, Elsy - 2019

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Personality maturation and personality relaxation: differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life

Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021

people who retired, Conscientiousness was lower in and after the first year of retirement versus before. No other traits … differed around the start of retirement. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the start of working life might promote … personality maturation and that retirement might promote personality "relaxation. …

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