Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

Stephan Humpert; Christian Pfeifer

Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

Stephan Humpert
, Christian Pfeifer

Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere

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Aus Sicht des Arbeitsangebots (neoklassisches Arbeitsangebotsmodell, Suchmodelle) wird versucht die geringen Beschäftigungsquoten älterer und weiblicher Personen zu erklären. Eine Grundannahme ist dabei, dass Personen nicht beschäftigt sein werden, sofern sich ein Lohnangebot unterhalb ihres Reservationslohns befindet. Während ersteres durch produktivitätsrelevante Eigenschaften und Entscheidungen von Firmen bestimmt wird, werden Reservationslöhne stark von individuellen Ausstattungen und Präferenzen für Freizeit bestimmt. Für die empirische Analyse benutzen wir deutsche Daten, um alters- und geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in Reservations- und Eintrittslöhnen zu untersuchen. Des Weiteren analysieren wir gewünschte und tatsächliche Arbeitsstunden und die Zufriedenheit mit Arbeit und Freizeit.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Erscheinungsort	Lüneburg
Verlag	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
Seitenumfang	66
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 08.2011

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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective. / Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian.
Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2011. (University of Lüneburg working paper series in economics; Nr. 214).

Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere

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