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Job seekers' search intensity and wage flexibility
— does age matter? | | Author(s) | An de Coen, Anneleen Forrier, Nele de Cuyper |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 2, February 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2015 |
| Pages | pp 346-366 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Unemployment ; Remuneration ; Poverty ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; Belgium. |
| Annotation | Although studies on job search implicitly presume that relationships between antecedents and indicators of job search are similar for job seekers from different ages, few studies have tested this assumption, even though life-span theories state that individual motives and behaviour significantly change as people age. From this theoretical perspective, the authors examine how age moderates the relationships between re-employment efficacy, employment commitment and financial hardship, on the one hand, and job search intensity and wage flexibility, on the other hand. Path analysis on a sample of 240 Belgian job seekers who were at the start of an outplacement programme showed that re-employment efficacy relates positively to job search intensity and wage flexibility for older job seekers, while negative relationships for younger job seekers were found. For employment commitment and financial hardship, the authors do not find any interaction effects with age. Employment commitment relates positively to search intensity, whereas financial hardship relates negatively to wage flexibility, irrespective of age. The implications for theory, practice and future research are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150623007 A |
| Classmark | GC: WH6: WL: W6: BB: SD6: 48: 76E |
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