An empirical study of age discrimination in Norway and Germany

被引:27
作者
Buesch, Victoria [1 ]
Dahl, Svenn-Age [2 ]
Dittrich, Dennis A. V. [3 ]
机构
[1] OTA Private Univ Appl Sci, D-10587 Berlin, Germany
[2] Inst Res Econ & Business Adm SNF, NO-5045 Bergen, Norway
[3] Univ Erfurt, Fac Polit Econ, D-99089 Erfurt, Germany
关键词
OLDER WORKERS; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT; ATTITUDES; PERCEPTIONS; RETIREMENT; APPLICANT; EMPLOYERS; GENDER; STEREOTYPES;
D O I
10.1080/00036840601007344
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Using a questionnaire and a sample of students and personnel managers we establish the existence of age discrimination in the hiring process in Germany and Norway. As expected, age discrimination is more prominent in Germany where the hiring probability of equally qualified applicants is reduced by about 22 percentage points due to an age differential of 14 years as opposed to only 12 percentage points in Norway. Within both countries the tendency to discriminate does not differ between students and personnel managers and does not depend on the age of the decision maker.
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页码:633 / 651
页数:19
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