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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?
Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019
This paper analyses a local marketing campaign in Germany that provided information about unproven agerelated … stereotypes and the value of older workers. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using … comprehensive register data, we find that the information provided by the campaign (via banners, interviews, job fairs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131723
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Do informational nudges alter firms’ hiring behavior of older workers?
Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019
This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and … comprehensive register data, we find that the information provided by the campaign (via banners, interviews, job fairs and … information brochures) did change firms' employment behavior. The cheap and mild intervention increased the employment rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099043
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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?
Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019
This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and … comprehensive register data, we find that the information provided by the campaign (via banners, interviews, job fairs and … information brochures) did change firms' employment behavior. The cheap and mild intervention increased the employment rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230966
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Christopher Pissarides
Jackman, Richard - Palgrave Macmillan
Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen ‘for their analysis of markets with search frictions’. Though Pissarides is best known for his work in this area, it is only part of a very extensive research agenda...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364192
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How aging of the labor force affects equilibrium unemployment
Hetze, Pascal; Ochsen, Carsten - 2005
standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly … workers. -- Vacancies and Separations ; Unemployment ; Job Creation ; Aging of the Labor Force ; Demographic Change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883968
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Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness : Predictive Models for Identifying Unemployed Workers and Young Adults who become Persistently Homeless
Toros, Halil - 2019
Two new predictive screening tools that are based on analyzing records of over one-million people who experienced homelessness have been placed in the public domain by the Economic Roundtable. The two groups targeted by these tools are low-wage workers who have just lost their jobs and youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888788
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Older workers and working time
Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013
the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786943
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F. - 2013
onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077293
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Dual labour markets: A survey
Wapler, Rüdiger - 1999
Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market … economies are discussed. It is shown that dual labour market theory is an important contribution to understanding unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305092
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321785