In Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009 I conducted a web-based survey of economists in my native country of the Czech Republic, and received 182 responses (a response rate of over 25 percent). The survey included 21 policy questions, each anchored in the status quo and soliciting judgment on whether policy...

This book deals with a dialogic organizational development process carried out with managers and employees in the Research & Development Department of Bang & Olufsen, Denmark. This action research project did not start with ready-made concepts to be implemented. They were developed during the...

There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional...

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...

Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within the same firm. Survival analysis suggests that younger employees experience shorter times to promotion than older workers and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood...

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore superior evaluations because it contains objective...

Die von der Bundesregierung eingesetzte Kommission 'Verlässlicher Generationenvertrag' aus Politiker*innen und Expert*innen hat im März 2020 ihren Bericht vorgelegt. Daraus ergeben sich Fragen zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik: Welchen Einfluss sollten Wissenschaftler*innen auf die...

Die von der Bundesregierung eingesetzte Kommission „Verlässlicher Generationenvertrag“ aus Politiker*innen und Expert*innen hat im März 2020 ihren Bericht vorgelegt. Daraus ergeben sich Fragen zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik: Welchen Einfluss sollten Wissenschaftler*innen auf...

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...