Comparing the working patterns of older people to those of younger people : static and dynamic empirical analyses in selected economies

摘要: Under the trend of ageing population, older people have a greater potential to be part future labour force. Their employment patterns therefore deserve governments' attention. This thesis compares those younger in selected economies. In first study we decompose age-employment gaps using non-linear Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions U.S., U.K. and Hong Kong. Explained factors explain nearly entire U.S. Kong but not second study, investigate job preferences addition outcomes. Our binomiallogit models on working part-time involuntarily show that is more likely voluntary choice regardless gender age third estimate competing risks Cox proportional hazards unemployment various types spells We find an individual when he or she starts spell, longer remains unemployed before getting full-time job. However, decreasing from leaving reverses after spell starting 54.