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...

This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996–2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

In German companies, it is often said of older employees that they are not able to keep pace with their younger colleagues with respect to knowledge and work operations. This trend will intensify in the coming years and is the reason why an increasing number of companies have risen to the...

This paper investigates the relationship between the length of Unemployment Insurance (UI) entitlement and transitions out of unemployment. Our focus is on older job seekers who usually access to longer benefit periods and may withdraw from the labour force via early retirement. We exploit the...

In Germany, older unemployed people aged 58 or more years have been exempt from a fundamental principle of activating labour market policy until 2007: They have been entitled to unemployment benefit payments until taking up retirement pension without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of...

This paper presents a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence in favor of the view that the retirement age decision impacts on the search intensity of older workers before this age. Countries with a retirement age at 60 are indeed characterized by lower employment rates for workers aged...

Working conditions have greatly evolved in recent decades in developed countries. This evolution has been accompanied with the appearance of new forms of work organisation that may be sources of stress and health risk for older workers. As populations are ageing, these issues are particularly...

Les conditions de travail ont rapidement évolué au cours des dernières décennies dans les pays développés. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée de l’apparition de nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail s’avérant être sources de pénibilité et de risques pour la santé. Dans...