Ageing Workforce: Firm Strategies and Public Policy in Germany

Schmähl, Winfried

doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00247

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“…More rigid employment protection legislation does also increase the share of involuntary early retirements. Such legislation creates employment constraints by making firms less likely to hire, and the result is also consistent with Schmähl's (2003) observation that some companies in Germany push older workers into early retirement as a means to circumvent strict employment protection legislation.…”

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“…Moreover, Schmähl (2003) reports for the case of Germany that since rigid employment protection legislation impedes firms from lying off workers, firms often pressurize older workers to retire early once they reach the age at which early retirement benefits become available.…”

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“…Schmähl 2003, Henkens and van Dalen 2003, Herz 1995, we are not aware of empirical studies that document the extent and determinants of 1 Constraints to the employment of older workers can also stem from regulations of the social security system. For instance, firms in Switzerland have to pay contributions to mandatory private pension funds and the contribution rates increase with the workers' age (see Dorn and Sousa-Poza 2003).…”

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“…Vulnerability of young adults to recession the evidence discussed above often indicates that economic recession primarily affects young adults (Schmähl 2003(Schmähl , verick 2009). in turn, the fertility response to economic recession is usually most pronounced among younger people, in part also because most of them are childless and often aim to fulfill the common prerequisites for family formation and childbearing: achieving secure income, acquiring good housing, and accumulating resources (Hobcraft and Kiernan 1995, Kravdal 1999, neels 2010.…”

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Economic Recession and Fertility in the Developed World

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Skirbekk

Philipov

2011

Population & Development Rev

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This article reviews research on the effects of economic recessions on fertility in the developed world. We study how economic downturns, as measured by various indicators, especially by declining GDP levels, falling consumer confidence, and rising unemployment, were found to affect fertility. We also discuss particular mechanisms through which the recession may have influenced fertility behavior, including the effects of economic uncertainty, falling income, changes in the housing market, and rising enrollment in higher education, and also factors that influence fertility indirectly such as declining marriage rates. Most studies find that fertility tends to be pro-cyclical and often rises and declines with the ups and downs of the business cycle. Usually, these aggregate effects are relatively small (typically, a few percentage points) and of short durations; in addition they often influence especially the timing of childbearing and in most cases do not leave an imprint on cohort fertility levels. Therefore, major long-term fertility shifts often continue seemingly uninterrupted during the recession—including the fertility declines before and during the Great Depression of the 1930s and before and during the oil shock crises of the 1970s. Changes in the opportunity costs of childbearing and fertility behavior during economic downturn vary by sex, age, social status, and number of children; childless young adults are usually most affected. Furthermore, various policies and institutions may modify or even reverse the relationship between recessions and fertility. The first evidence pertaining to the recent recession falls in line with these findings. In most countries, the recession has brought a decline in the number of births and fertility rates, often marking a sharp halt to the previous decade of rising fertility rates.

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“…Hutchens (2007) belegt mit Befragungsdaten für die USA, dass Arbeitgeber ihren älte-ren Beschäftigten aktiv Altersteilzeitangebote unterbreiten. Für Deutschland gibt Schmähl (2003) Der Rest des Artikels ist wie folgt aufgebaut: In Abschnitt 2 wird der theoretische Hintergrund unserer Analysen dargestellt. Dabei wird für die Hypothesenbildung vor allem auf die Modelle von Lazear (1979Lazear ( , 1981, Stern (1987, 1994) und Hutchens (1999 rekurriert, aber auch auf die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Fallstudien eingegangen.…”

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Betriebe und Frühverrentung: Angebote, die man nicht ablehnt

Bellmann

Janik

2009

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Firms and early retirement: offers that one does not refuseAbstract In many countries early retirement has become a personnel strategy. The establishments are interested in hiring younger employees and try to avoid "deferred payments" which arise if older employees are paid above their productivity. Firms enter into contracts with their employees that include clauses about early retirement.L. Bellmann (u) · F. Janik Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), Regensburger Straße 104, 90478 Nürnberg, Deutschland E-Mail: Lutz.Bellmann@iab.de In response to demand or technological shocks, workers receive retirement offers from their employers which cannot be rejected by rational actors. Using the IAB Establishment Panel 2003Panel -2006, the relation between indicators of demand and technological shocks and the incidence and quantity of early retirements is analyzed. Thus, our findings suggest that firms' personnel policies affect the employees' decisions about early retirement.

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Ageing Workforce: Firm Strategies and Public Policy in Germany

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

‘Voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ early retirement: an international analysis

‘Voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ early retirement: an international analysis

Economic Recession and Fertility in the Developed World

Betriebe und Frühverrentung: Angebote, die man nicht ablehnt

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