European countries need to expand employment among older individuals. Many papers have examined this issue from different angles. However, very few seem to have considered its gender dimension properly, despite evidence that lifting the overall senior employment rate requires significantly...

In this paper we explore a matched employer-employee data set to investigate the presence of gender wage discrimination in the Belgian private economy labour market. Contrary to many existing papers, we analyse gender wage discrimination using an independent productivity measure. Using...

A l'instar de la population dans son ensemble, la force de travail vieillit. Cette tendance devrait se renforcer du fait des politiques visant à augmenter le taux d'emploi au-delà de 50 ans. Mais les entreprises localisées en Belgique sont-elles disposées à employer plus de travailleurs...

Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older segments of the population will only materialise if firms are willing to employ them. Although several economists have started considering the demand side of the labour market for...