Labour Markets and Demographic Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-9

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2. The Age Structure of Employment and Unemployment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Ageing in German Industry

      • Golo Henseke, Pascal Hetze, Thusnelda Tivig

      Pages 12-30

   3. Unemployment by Age and the Unemployment Rate

      • Carsten Ochsen

      Pages 31-37

3. Age Structure & Productivity at Firm Level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Absenteeism in Age-Diverse Work Teams

      • Matthias Weiss

      Pages 40-57

   3. Firm Productivity, Workforce Age and Vocational Training in Austria1

      • Bernhard Mahlberg, Inga Freund, Alexia Prskawetz

      Pages 58-84

   4. Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies in ICT-Intensive Services

      • Jenny Meyer

      Pages 85-119

4. Ageing & Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Demographic Change and Industry-specific Innovation Patterns in Germany

      • Golo Henseke, Thusnelda Tivig

      Pages 122-136

   3. Age, Human Capital and the Geography of Innovation

      • Katharina Frosch, Thusnelda Tivig

      Pages 137-146

5. Demographic Aspects of Human Capital Accumulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Knowledge Transfer within Teams and Demographic Change

      • Michael Kuhn, Pascal Hetze

      Pages 148-168

   3. Life Expectancy, Human Capital Accumulation, Technological Adoption and the Process of Economic Growth

      • Francesco Lancia, Giovanni Prarolo

      Pages 169-189

   4. High Skilled Immigration and Native Educational Decisions

      • Christian Lumpe, Benjamin Weigert

      Pages 190-208

6. Issues in Female Labour Supply

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. The Non-EU-25 Female Population in Spain: A Factor Analysis of Labour Market Integration at Regional Level1

      • Elena Vidal Coso, Fernando Gil Alonso, Andreu Domingo i Valls

      Pages 210-233

   3. Family and Work Reconciliation: A New Approach to an Old Problem

      • Anna Matysiak, Daniele Vignoli

      Pages 234-250

7. Issues in Retirement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Policy-making in Ageing Labour Markets: The Case of Hidden Early Retirement in Germany

      • Martin Brussig, Christina Wübbeke

      Pages 252-280

This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct impact of ageing on employment and unemployment. However, the age structure of the workforce also shapes productivity and the scope for innovation, issues which are taken up in turn. Furthermore, it is often argued that a decline in the size of the workforce may be offset by an increase in the workers’ skills and knowledge. The impact of demographic developments such as ageing and migration on the accumulation and transfer of human capital is, therefore, studied by a further set of contributions. The volume is rounded off with analyses relating to the supply of labour by women and by older workers. The authors ask, for instance, whether (female) labour migration as well as changes in retirement patterns and policies may counterbalance the expected workforce shrinking.

• Ageing
• Arbeitsmarkt
• Demografischer Wandel
• Demographic change
• Humankapital
• Innovation
• Produktivität
• Volkswirtschaftslehre

• Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

  Michael Kuhn

• Department of Economics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Carsten Ochsen

Dr. Michael Kuhn is Senior Researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Prof. Dr. Carsten Ochsen is Junior Professor for Applied Economic Research at the Department of Economics at the University of Rostock, Germany.

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