The labor market for older workers in Germany

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  • Viktor Steiner
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The paper describes labor market developments for older workers in Germany in recent years. It provides a a summary of the main changes in labor market and pension policies in Germany which might have contributed to these developments. The main part of the paper offers, on the basis of micro data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), empirical evidence on changes in employment and longterm unemployment, early retirement as well as relative wages by age for Germany in the period 2000–2014. Based on this empirical analysis, some implications for labor market policies are discussed. Der Arbeitsmarkt für ältere Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag wird die Arbeitsmarktentwicklung für ältere Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren beschrieben. Der Beitrag fasst wichtige Änderungen in der Arbeitsmarktund Rentenpolitik in Deutschland zusammen, die diese Entwicklung beeinflusst haben könnten. Im Hauptteil des Beitrags werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Analyse auf Basis des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) zur Entwicklung der Beschäftigung, langfristigen Arbeitslosigkeit, Frühverrentung und der Lohnentwicklung nach Altersgruppen im Zeitraum 2000–2014 präsentiert. Auf Basis dieser empirischen AnaViktor Steiner [email protected] 1 Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und Wirtschaftspolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Boltzmannstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Germany lyse werden Implikationen für die Arbeitsmarktpolitik diskutiert.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017