The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs.

Autor/inn/en	Acemoglu, Daron; Mühlbach, Nicolaj Søndergaard; Scott, Andrew J.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Aufstieg der altersfreundlichen Arbeitsplätze.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2022), 35 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 30463
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w30463
Schlagwörter	Lebensalter; Frau; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; Arbeitsbedingungen; Frau; Lebensalter; Mann; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; USA; Entwicklung; Arbeitsanforderung; Berufsgruppe; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Arbeitsanforderung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Erwerbstätigkeit; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Arbeitsplatzwahl; Berufsgruppe; Erwerbstätiger; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Altersadäquater Arbeitsplatz; Arbeitspapier; Einflussfaktor; Entwicklung; Hochschulabsolvent; Mann; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; USA
Abstract	"In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to the preferences of older workers. We explore this by constructing an "age-friendliness" index for occupations. We use Natural Language Processing to measure the degree of overlap between textual descriptions of occupations and characteristics which define age friendliness. Our index provides an approximation to rankings produced by survey participants and has predictive power for the occupational share of older workers. We find that between 1990 and 2020 around three quarters of occupations have seen their age-friendliness increase and employment in above-average age-friendly occupations has risen by 49 million. However, older workers have not benefited disproportionately from this rise, with substantial gains going to younger females and college graduates and with male non-college educated workers losing out the most. These findings point to the need to frame the rise of age-friendly jobs in the context of other labour market trends and imperfections. Purely age-based policies are insufficient given both heterogeneity amongst older workers as well as similarities between groups of older and younger workers. The latter is especially apparent in the overlapping appeal of specific occupational characteristics." The study refers to the period 1990-2020. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1