Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Luc Behaghel, Eve Caroli and Muriel Roger

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: We analyze the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, our empirical analysis confirms that new technologies and some innovative workplace practices are biased against older workers. The use of the Internet and the adoption of computer networks tend to increase the wage share of middle-aged workers and to reduce the share of workers older than 50. By contrast, the reduction of the number of hierarchical layers is favourable to older workers. Training contributes to protect older workers in terms of employment and/or of wages.

Keywords: Technical change; organizational change; training; older workers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J24 J26 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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