The labor market for older workers in Germany

Steiner, Viktor

doi:10.1007/s12651-017-0221-9

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“…This age was increased to 57 in 1992, and since 1995, the retirement rules have been similar in eastern and western Germany. Today, unemployment is generally higher in eastern than in western Germany, including among older workers (Steiner 2017). However, the East-West differences in unemployment rates have decreased somewhat since unification.…”

Section: The Legacy Of the East-west Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This steady increase was likely caused, first, by the relatively strong performance of the German labor market in most of the years we covered; and, second, by pension and labor market reforms (Hess et al 2021). However, it is difficult to attribute this increase to specific reforms, as there have been many overlapping changes (Steiner 2017). While changes in the composition of cohorts, such as increasing educational attainment, likely also contributed to these trends, other factors have played a role as well.…”

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The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Dudel¹,

Loichinger²,

Klüsener³

et al. 2021

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The extension of late working life has been proposed as a potential remedy for the challenges of aging societies. For Germany, surprisingly little is known about trends and social inequalities in the length of late working life. Here, we use data from the German Microcensus to estimate working life expectancy from age 55 onwards for the 1941-1955 birth cohorts. We adjust our calculations of working life expectancy for working hours, and present results for western and eastern Germany by gender, education, and occupation. While working life expectancy has increased across cohorts, we find strong regional and socioeconomic disparities. Decomposition analyses show that among males, socioeconomic differences are predominantly driven by variation in employment rates; whereas among women, variation in working hours is also highly relevant. Older eastern German women have longer working lives than older western German women, which is likely attributable to the GDR legacy of high female employment.

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Section: The Legacy Of the East-west Dividementioning

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Section: Main Findingsmentioning

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The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Dudel¹,

Loichinger²,

Klüsener³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…However, the situation was already improving in times of weak economic and employment growth -thus, it is not only growth-induced. Pension and labour market reforms can claim a considerable share of success for increasing the number of older workers (Steiner, 2017).…”

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“…In Germany, a number of relevant institutional changes have been implemented in the 1990s and at the beginning of the new millennium. They have considerably increased work incentives for older workers (Dietz and Walwei, 2011;Steiner, 2017). Already at the end of the 1990s, the retirement age for unemployed, women, disabled and long-term insured 1 increased.…”

Section: Labour Marketmentioning

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Labour Market Participation of Older Workers: Drivers and Obstacles

Deller

Walwei

2021

Intereconomics

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From an international comparative point of view the paper deals with driving forces and potential obstacles for the labour market participation of older workers. It goes into depth by focusing on four case studies that seem to be typical for different contexts. Germany, Israel, Italy and Sweden were selected in order to examine the development and the situation of older workers in detail. Each country stands for a specific configuration, e.g. because it may represent a trend reversal, a continuously outstanding performance, or lasting problems. The cases also provde information on pension reforms and approaches to better manage ageing workforces, in some cases including a new balance of work and retirement. Being aware of the different country situations, it becomes obvious that one size of politics does not fit all. Independent of national policies, employability over the life cycle should gain more attention. Regarding future developments, continuous skill improvement and a healthy work environment are indispensable to keep older workers in work.

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“…Concerning the regulation of retirement, from the late 1990s onwards, Germany implemented a series of reforms with a view to encourage labour force participation of older workers and discouraging early retirement. The retirement age was raised from 65 to 67 and public subsidies for the partial retirement schemes were terminated (Dietz & Walwei, 2011; Steiner, 2017). Although the option of early retirement for welfare recipients is available at the age of 63, it is connected to a loss of retirement income of 0.3% for every month of early retirement, hence, making this option rather unattractive to the most welfare recipients.…”

Section: Institutional Contextmentioning

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Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany

Nivorozhkin

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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This paper quantifies the importance of active job search for the probability of re‐employment, estimates the share of older job seekers that become discouraged and explore factors that may lead to discouragement. We use the sample of older unemployed welfare benefit recipients in Germany covered by the Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS). We find that employment transition rates are low for older job seekers: only around 11% found a job within a year. Participation in job search is an important but not a decisive factor for the transition to employment, other variables such education levels and health status are as important for the probability to transit to employment. Furthermore, more than 29.4% of individuals that did not find employment gave up the job search. We argue that a large share of these group of unemployed could be classified as discouraged. The job centre caseworkers' strategies specifically aimed at helping older job seekers to develop a new perspective in the labour market are likely to increase their probability of continuing to search for work.

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The labor market for older workers in Germany

Cited by 17 publications

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The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Labour Market Participation of Older Workers: Drivers and Obstacles

Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany

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