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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: a labor supply-side perspective
- Source :
- Humpert, S & Pfeifer, C 2013, ' Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply-Side Perspective ' Journal for Labour Market Research, Bd 46, Nr. 1, S. 1-17 . DOI: 10.1007/s12651-012-0108-8
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employment if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the latter depend on workers' productivity and firms' decisions, reservation wages are largely determined by workers' endowments and preferences for leisure. To shed some empirical light on this issue, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual working hours, and satisfaction with leisure and work.
- Subjects :
- Erwerbsbeteiligung
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics
Work-Life-Balance
J22
ältere Arbeitnehmer
Supply side
Beruf und Familie
German
Age and gender
Arbeitszufriedenheit
ddc:330
Economics
Productivity
J14
Perspective (graphical)
Reservation
Arbeitszeitwunsch
Einkommenserwartung
Lohnhöhe
Frauen
language.human_language
Work (electrical)
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Industrial relations
altersspezifische Faktoren
language
Erwerbsverhalten
Survey data collection
Erwerbsquote
Gender und Diversity
J64
Arbeitskräfteangebot
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18678343 and 16143485
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal for Labour Market Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....449f6d1ea604b005f2e8630b45df7290