Which firms employ older workers?

Arbeitspapier

There is an increasing emphasizes on the importance of allowing people as they grow older to continue to work according to their work capacity and preferences. This paper builds on earlier literature that shows that firms employ older workers, but they tend not to hire them, and provides an explorative analysis of the establishments that employ older workers. A special focus is on how sensitive are the findings when the definition of older workers become more restrictive. Using employer-employee data from Swedish administrative registers, we found that the difference in establishments' employment is large enough to explain some of the observed difference across definitions. The retirement age in the guaranteed pension scheme, i.e., 65 years, seems to be one the institutional settings that affect both the employees and employers' decision for work after 65, but also the establishment's size, age and ownership.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 14/2018

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Demand ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Retirement; Retirement Policies
• Subject: active aging ; older workers ; establishments ; firms

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Andrén, Daniela ; Mudenda, Lackson Daniel ; Pettersson, Nicklas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Örebro University School of Business
• (where): Örebro
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/244546
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