Michael Kuhn & Carsten Ochsen 
Labour Markets and Demographic Change 

This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct impact of ageing on employment and unemployment. However, the age structure of the workforce also shapes productivity and the scope for innovation, issues which are taken up in turn. Furthermore, it is often argued that a decline in the size of the workforce may be offset by an increase in the workers’ skills and knowledge. The impact of demographic developments such as ageing and migration on the accumulation and transfer of human capital is, therefore, studied by a further set of contributions. The volume is rounded off with analyses relating to the supply of labour by women and by older workers. The authors ask, for instance, whether (female) labour migration as well as changes in retirement patterns and policies may counterbalance the expected workforce shrinking.

Table of Content

The Age Structure of Employment and Unemployment.- Ageing in German Industry.- Unemployment by Age and the Unemployment Rate.- Age Structure & Productivity at Firm Level.- Absenteeism in Age-Diverse Work Teams.- Firm Productivity, Workforce Age and Vocational Training in Austria1.- Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies in ICT-Intensive Services.- Ageing & Innovation.- Demographic Change and Industry-specific Innovation Patterns in Germany.- Age, Human Capital and the Geography of Innovation.- Demographic Aspects of Human Capital Accumulation.- Knowledge Transfer within Teams and Demographic Change.- Life Expectancy, Human Capital Accumulation, Technological Adoption and the Process of Economic Growth.- High Skilled Immigration and Native Educational Decisions.- Issues in Female Labour Supply.- The Non-EU-25 Female Population in Spain: A Factor Analysis of Labour Market Integration at Regional Level1.- Family and Work Reconciliation: A New Approach to an Old Problem.- Issues in Retirement.- Policy-making in Ageing Labour Markets: The Case of Hidden Early Retirement in Germany.- Transition in the Italian Labour Market: Gender Differences Among the Over 50.

About the author

Dr. Michael Kuhn is Senior Researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Prof. Dr. Carsten Ochsen is Junior Professor for Applied Economic Research at the Department of Economics at the University of Rostock, Germany.