Meaning of Age in Labour Market – Model of Relationship between Employer and Employee Cover Image

Znaczenie wieku na rynku pracy – model relacji pomiędzy pracownikiem i pracodawcą
Meaning of Age in Labour Market – Model of Relationship between Employer and Employee

Author(s): Konrad Turek
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: ageing; older workers; age stereotypes; research of employers; job recruitment

Summary/Abstract: Employers play a key role in defining the conditions for continuing or leaving the work in retirement age. The article presents theoretical model of relationship between employer and employee. Age of the employee is important: although it does not determine this relationship, it is one of the indicators for assessing the fit to the job and for determine the expected value of employee. The analysis present the factors affecting age preferences of Polish employers (as a set of logistic regression models for the acceptance of candidates aged from 20 to 65 years). The data comes from the largest Polish research of employers Human Capital Balance 2010-2013. The results indicate that age typing of jobs is common during recruitment process. Among the important determinants of age preferences were: strategy of investment in new employee, profession, requirements for experience, education and skills of the candidate. The results also indicate a relationship of age typing and gender typing of jobs in recruitment.

  • Issue Year: 217/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 167-194
  • Page Count: 28