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| Title: | | Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective  |
| Authors: | | Humpert, Stephan Pfeifer, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research 449 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | age family gap gender job search labor supply reservation wages |
| JEL: | | J14 J22 J64 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, DIW
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