TY - JOUR A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Dittrich, Dennis A. V. A1 - Königstein, Manfred T1 - Hiring Chances are Bad for Older Workers T2 - Management Online Review N2 - It is often claimed that work opportunities decline with age, that hiring chances of older persons are poor. We investigate this by collecting questionnaire responses from personnel managers of German manufacturing firms, eliciting a hypothetical hiring decision based on three fictitious candidates. We rely on an age-neutral job and a small age-gap of 14 years between the youngest and the oldest candidate. The quasi-experimental design of the questionnaire allows us to control for possible productivity differences and other economic explanations for declining hiring chances. The data show a 60 percentage point difference in hiring probabilities between the youngest and oldest candidate. KW - Discrimination KW - Hiring Decision KW - Labor Market Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-srh/frontdoor/index/index/docId/873 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228200054_Bad_Hiring_Chances_for_Older_Workers ER -