Age et relation d'emploi: les mécanismes d'une sélection défavorable aux travailleurs plus âgés

Annie Jolivet

Revue d'économie politique, 2003, vol. 113, issue 1, 15-35

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of age as a selection criteria in employment relation. Firm?s decisions relating to training and promotion are considered crucial: because they contribute to design employees? productive abilities, they have an impact on recruitment and lay-off decisions. Various theories of employment relation are used, selected upon their capacity to express the dynamic dimension of wage relation, thus offering a way to take age into account: human capital theory, labour as a quasi-fixed factor analysis, tournament models, delayed payment contract models and internal market analysis. All these theories underscore strong tendencies to operate a selection against older workers, tendencies deriving both from the research of economic efficiency and from the nature of the prevailing employment relation.

Keywords: older worker; training; promotion; lay-off; preretirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=REDP_131_0015 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2003-1-page-15.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_131_0015

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue d'économie politique from Dalloz
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().