TY - UNPB

T1 - Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates

T2 - A Labor Supply Side Perspective

AU - Humpert, Stephan

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

N1 - Abstracts online gestellt

PY - 2012/6/27

Y1 - 2012/6/27

N2 - This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages depend on workers' productivity and firms' decisions, reservation wages are largely determined by workers' endowments and preferences for leisure. To shed some empirical light on this issue, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual working hours, and satisfaction with leisure and work.

AB - This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages depend on workers' productivity and firms' decisions, reservation wages are largely determined by workers' endowments and preferences for leisure. To shed some empirical light on this issue, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual working hours, and satisfaction with leisure and work.

KW - Gender and Diversity

M3 - Working papers

T3 - SOEPpaper on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research

BT - Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates

PB - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

CY - Berlin

ER -