Why are the older workers discriminated in hirings?

Pourquoi les seniors sont-ils discriminés à l'embauche?

Laetitia Challe, Emmanuel Duguet, Francois Langot, L Yannick, Loic Parquet () and Pascale Petit
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L Yannick: ERUDITE - Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Loic Parquet: GAINS - Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux - UM - Le Mans Université, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The theoretical part of this paper provides the foundations of three statistical discriminations that are specific to the older workers: employers can think that a senior is characterized by (i) a shorter distance to the retirement age, (ii) a larger distance to the technological frontier, and/or (iii) a smaller ability to move from old toward new occupations than a younger worker. In the empirical part of the paper, a controlled experiments is designed in order to test each of these statistical discriminations. We also present a "pure" discrimination equilibrium and a controlled experiments specific to this assumption. Our empirical results, based on data collected in France, support the view that the older worker are discriminated in the hiring process via these 4 channels. This suggests that the French gap in the employment rate of the older workers is partially explained by significant discriminations.

Keywords: search; matching; life-cycle; discrimination; correspondence test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-04-07
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