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An empirical study of age discrimination in Norway and Germany
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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.... view less
Classification
Human Resources Management
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
hiring decisions; older workers; demographic change
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 633-651
Journal
Applied Economics, 41 (2009) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840601007344
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)