Dissertation_Paula Aleksandrowicz_12 ... - Jacobs University

5. Barriers and Opportunities for Prolonged Employment
In this concluding chapter, I will present barriers and opportunities to the prolonged
employment of older workers. They are located at statutory, collective bargaining, company
and individual level. The barriers and opportunities are derived from the preceding chapters
on institutional and structural developments (chapters 3.2., 3.3. and 3.4.) and on the results
from my analyses of firms´ personnel policy (chapters 4.2., 4.3. and 4.4.). On that basis, a
projection into the future will be made, regarding the prospects of long-term labour market
integration of older workers in Poland and Germany.
Table 25 depicts the results of hypothesis testing conducted in the preceding chapters.
Table 25: Repetition of supported or not supported hypotheses
Hypothesis,
source
Hypothesis 1,
section 2.1.
Hypothesis 2A,
section 2.2.
Hypothesis 2B,
section 2.2.
Hypothesis 3,
section 2.2.
Hypothesis 4,
section 2.3.
Hypothesis 5,
section 2.2.
Hypothesis 6,
section 2.1.
Hypothesis 7,
section 2.4.
Results for Poland, source Results for Germany, source Cross-national
results, source
not supported, section 4.3.8.
recruitment: supported, section 4.3.3.
further training: not supported; section 4.3.4.
health a. integration management: not supported;
section 4.3.5.
employee exit: supported, section 4.3.6.
recruitment: not supported; section 4.3.3.
further training: not supported; section 4.3.4.
health a. integration management: supported,
section 4.3.5.
employee exit: not supported; section 4.3.6.
recruitment: not supported, section 4.3.3.
further training: could not be tested with regard to
the age structure of the workforce, but not
supported with regard to the economic position of
the firm, section 4.3.4.
health a. integration management: not supported,
section 4.3.5.
employee exit: supported with regard to the
economic position of the firm, not supported with
regard to the age structure of the workforce,
section 4.3.6.
on the basis of statistical secondary data:
supported, section 3.3.4.
on the basis of qualitative data: supported with a
restriction (structural factors have determining
power), section 4.3.7.
supported with restrictions (structural factors
have determining power, and some reforms
have engendered no reactions), section 4.2.8.
recruitment: supported, section 4.2.3.
further training: not supported; section 4.2.4.
health a. integration management: not
supported; section 4.2.5.
employee exit: supported, section 4.2.6.
recruitment: not supported; section 4.2.3.
further training: supported, section 4.2.4.
health a. integration management: supported,
section 4.2.5.
employee exit: not supported; section 4.2.6.
recruitment: could not be tested; section 4.2.3.
further training: not supported, section 4.2.4.
health a. integration management: supported
with regard to the economic position of the
firm, not supported with regard to the age
structure of the workforce, section 4.2.5.
employee exit: a.a., section 4.2.6.
on the basis of statistical secondary data:
supported, section 3.2.3.
on the basis of qualitative data: supported with
a restriction (structural factors have determining
power), section 4.2.7.
(does not apply)
(does not apply)
(does not apply)
(does not apply)
(does not apply)
(does not apply) (does not apply) supported, section 4.4.
institutional level: supported, section 3.4.2.
firm level: supported, section 4.3.8.
could not be tested in a comprehensive way;
section 4.3.9.
institutional level: not supported, section 3.4.2.
firm level: supported, section 4.2.8.
supported only with
regard to the firm
level, section 4.4.
supported, section 4.2.9. supported; section 4.4.
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