Which firms employ older workers?

Daniela Andrén (), Lackson Daniel Mudenda () and Nicklas Pettersson ()
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Lackson Daniel Mudenda: Örebro University School of Business, Postal: Örebro University, School of Business, SE - 701 82 ÖREBRO, Sweden
Nicklas Pettersson: Örebro University School of Business, Postal: Örebro University, School of Business, SE - 701 82 ÖREBRO, Sweden, https://www.oru.se/english/employee/nicklas_pettersson

No 2018:14, Working Papers from Örebro University, School of Business

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: active aging; older workers; establishments; firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J22 J23 J24 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2019-01-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-eur, nep-hrm, nep-lma and nep-ltv
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