Do Health Insurance and Pension Costs Reduce the Job Opportunities of Older Workers?

Scott, Frank A.; Berger, Mark C.; Garen, John

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“…The presence of young children and elderly people, whose employability and earning abilities are low, reduces the overall labor power of the household and, in some cases, working-age household members are not able to participate fully in the labor market because they are required to care for their children and the elderly members of the household, as Pezzin and Schone (1998) discuss. Even among working-age adults, the ability to participate effectively in the labor market may depend on age and gender, as Scott et al (1995) and Stanley and Jarrell (1998) suggest. In addition, households with female heads are likely to have lower incomes and expenditure levels, as Bhaumik and Nugent (1998) suggest, so that these households have a greater likelihood of being in poverty.…”

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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-evidence from Kosovo

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractDespite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address this lacuna in the literature using a household-level data set from Kosovo. Our analysis suggests that it is individually rational for competing ethnic communities, KosovoAlbanians and Kosovo Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region's resources.

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2009

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“…This leads to the prediction that larger firms will tend to hire relatively young workers. Another example is Scott, Berger, and Garen (1995) who argue that health insurance and pensions create a form of fixed costs. Although their theory is more complicated than the above, they too predict that an increase in such fixed costs will cause the firm to increase hiring of young workers.…”

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“…Indeed, the argument about fixed costs in the above Section I takes that form; assuming a firm fills a job from the outside, what effect do fixed costs have on the firm's propensity to hire old versus young workers? That question and the theory that addresses it are the basis for the empirical work in Hutchens (1986), Scott et. al.…”

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Job Opportunities for Older Workers: When Are Jobs Filled with External Hires?

Hutchens¹

2007

Population Change, Labor Markets, and Sustainable Growth - Towards a New Economic Paradigm

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This paper examines why firms sometimes employ older workers, but tend to not hire new older workers for the same job. It focuses on one aspect of that phenomenon: the propensity for firms to fill jobs from the inside rather than hire someone new from the outside. Using a survey of establishments with information on a white collar job currently held by an older worker, the paper tests hypotheses on what types of jobs are likely to be filled from the outside. Several of the results point to the potential importance of asymmetric information, whereby the firm has better information on key characteristics of insiders versus outsiders. Abstract This paper examines why firms sometimes employ older workers, but tend to not hire new older workers for the same job. It focuses on one aspect of that phenomenon: the propensity for firms to fill jobs from the inside rather than hire someone new from the outside. Using a survey of establishments with information on a white collar job currently held by an older worker, the paper tests hypotheses on what types of jobs are likely to be filled from the outside. Several of the results point to the potential importance of asymmetric information, whereby the firm has better information on key characteristics of insiders versus outsiders.

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“…2 Scott et al (1995) use matched data from US Enterprise and Establishment Microdata 1991 (USEEM) and four waves of the Employee Benefits Supplement based on the CPS 1979 to 1993. They show that firms" health insurance policies may influence their hiring decisions.…”

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Age and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities

Humpert

2013

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There are only a few pieces of literature on age-specific occupational segregation. In this descriptive paper, I focus on occupational opportunities for newly-hired older male and female workers. This study is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR, 1988), who showed that firms employ older workers, but hire them less often than they hire younger ones. I use a rich dataset for West Germany with information covering almost thirty years, the regional file of the IAB Employment Sample (IABS-R04). By drawing segregation curves and calculating different measures, such as the Dissimilarity Index and the Hutchens Square Root Segregation Index, I find clear evidence that age-related segregation exists. While newly-hired workers in the age groups of 18 to 34 years and 35 to 54 years are quite similarly distributed in terms of the indices, those in the oldest age group, aged 55 years and above, and especially older women, are more segregated. Differences for older male and female workers over time may be explained by changes in labor and retirement policies.

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Do Health Insurance and Pension Costs Reduce the Job Opportunities of Older Workers?

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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-evidence from Kosovo

Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-evidence from Kosovo

Job Opportunities for Older Workers: When Are Jobs Filled with External Hires?

Age and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities

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