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 … of employability can offer critical insights for understanding the career events of older workers. …

The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political … agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age … resulting in permanent non-employability of older workers. We analyze this phenomenon in a putty-putty human capital vintage …

specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …. -- Older workers ; labor market institutions ; employment ; employment protection ; welfare state ; pensions ; retirement …