TY - CHAP A1 - Büsch, Victoria T1 - Rethinking recruitment processes in an ageing society T2 - Older workers in an ageing society N2 - The European population is facing a demographic change, chracterized by an ageing and shrinking society. The following remarks focus on the labour market, specifically the recruitment process. KW - Demography KW - Demographic Change KW - Older Workers KW - Recruitment Process KW - Labour Market Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1782540090 N1 - Vollext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar Full text due to copyright not available. SP - 171 EP - 176 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham, UK [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thieme, Paula A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Stamov-Rossnagel, Christian T1 - Work context influences on older workers' motivation for continuing education JF - Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft N2 - Decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy have led to the ageing of the German population during the past decades. As the German retirement pay system is a pay-as-you-go system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. Long before individuals actually retire, environmental factors but also personal factors influence the path of the retirement process. Work ability can be maintained through continuing education. Understanding and possibly even increasing older employees’ motivation to participate in continuing education is vital to achieving the European Union’s aim of individuals’ “lifelong learning” to cope with challenges of technological and organisational change. This empirical study analyses the influence of work context factors on motivation to participate in continuing education. Data source is the “Survey on continuing in employment after reaching pensionable age”, commissioned in 2008 by the Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (Federal Institute for Population Research). Results show weak but significant influences of some work context factors. Recommendations for actions and further research directions are given. KW - Continuing education KW - Life span KW - Motivation KW - Older Workers KW - Organisation Y1 - 2015 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275100718_Work_context_influences_on_older_workers'_motivation_for_continuing_education VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 87 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thieme, Paula A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Büsch, Victoria T1 - The role of continuing training motivation for work ability and the desire to work past retirement age JF - European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults N2 - Germany, relying on a pay-as-you-go pension system has increased regular retirement age to 67 due to its ageing population caused by decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. Using data from the nationally representative ‘Survey on continuing in employment in pensionable age’, we investigate the relevance of training motivation for work ability and the desire to work past retirement age and whether differences between social groups reflect inequalities in training participation. Results show significant positive correlations between continuing training motivation and work ability and desire to work past retirement age. Differentiated for selected respondent groups the level of qualification has a significant influence. This effect was stronger than any differences with regard to gender or employment participation. Results imply external conditions only partly explain older workers’ work ability or desire to work past retirement age. Compared to inequalities in training participation, motivation for continuing training is high across analysed subgroups. KW - Training KW - Older Workers KW - Work ability KW - Retirement KW - Motivation Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7687 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 25 EP - 38 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Dahl, Svenn-Aage A1 - Dittrich, Dennis T1 - An Empirical Study of Age Discrimination in Norway and Germany JF - Applied Economics N2 - 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. KW - Hiring Decisions KW - Older Workers KW - Demographic Change Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-8723 VL - 41 IS - 5 SP - 633 EP - 651 ER -