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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Dittrich, Dennis A. V. A1 - Königstein, Manfred T1 - Hiring Chances are Bad for Older Workers JF - 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 - 2009 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228200054_Bad_Hiring_Chances_for_Older_Workers ER -