Joop Schippers
Biographic Data
| ID | 249678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joop Schippers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joop |
| FAMILY NAME | Schippers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIPPERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9549-5242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Managerial decisions on older workers’ training: A vignette study on the interplay of worker and manager characteristics
A distaste for insecurity: Job Preferences of Young People in the Transition to Adulthood
Given the trend towards labour market flexibility in various European countries, this article examines whether the offered type of employment contract has an impact on young people's ratings of the attractiveness of a job. It empirically assesses the notion that young people's preference for secure employment increases as they transition into adulthood. We conducted a factorial survey among a representative sample of 1,025 people aged 18-35 years…
Leeftijdsdiscriminatie bij sollicitaties: Een vignette-experiment onder managers in negen Europese landen
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Gender and employment: Recalibrating women's position in work, organizations, and society in times of Covid‐19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of women in the labor market and the unrecognized value of essential occupations such as care and education In many countries across the world, people applauded care workers from their balconies in the spring of 2020 (Wikipedia, 2022), in essence clapping for the many women employed in the strongly feminized care sector. Similarly, workers in the strongly feminized educational sector have shown…
Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions: A Factorial Survey among Managers in Nine European Countries
This article analyses old-age discrimination in managers’ hypothetical hiring decisions. We expect that older job candidates are less likely to be hired than equally qualified younger candidates. Statistical discrimination theory argues that when recruiters have more information about the candidate’s skills, age is less important for hiring decisions. Given inconclusive results of previous studies, we elaborate on the theory by focusing on the co…
Self-Employment as Precarious Work
Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address bo…
Work-Family Conflict in the European Union: The Impact of Organizational and Public Facilities
Today, as an increasing share of women and men is involved in both paid tasks at work and unpaid care tasks for children and other relatives, more people are at risk of work-family conflict, which can be a major threat to well-being and mental, but also physical health. Both organizations and governments invest in arrangements that are meant to support individuals in finding a balance between work and family life. The twofold goal of our article …
Understanding old-age adaptation policies in Europe: The influence of profit, principles and pressures
To cope with an increased proportion of older workers, organisations develop old-age adaptation policies. Two strategies underlie these policies: phasing out and activating. Although the existence of these strategies is widely recognised, the reasons for their presence have rarely been explored. We identify three arguments that explain the extent to which these strategies are present: profit, principles and pressures. We hypothesise that the inte…
Managers’ interview invitation decisions about older job applicants: Human capital, economic conditions and job demands
Older job applicants are vulnerable to stereotype-related bias in the recruitment process. In the current study, we examined how managers’ job interview invitation decisions regarding older job applicants are influenced by applicants’ human capital-related characteristics, general economic conditions and managers’ perceptions of changes in organisational job demands. Data were collected in two waves of a vignette experiment, three years apart, am…
Training opportunities for older workers in the Netherlands: A Vignette Study
Ageing Organisations and the Extension of Working Lives: A Case Study Approach
This paper examines how the economic climate and policy changes at national level have been affecting organisational practices, aimed at the extension of working lives of older workers, over the last decade. We analyse case studies conducted among Dutch organisations. Our findings show that personnel policies are typically short-term oriented and vary in their existence and content congruous to the economic climate. Policy changes in retirement a…
The importance of illness duration, age at diagnosis and the year of diagnosis for labour participation chances of people with chronic illness: Results of a nationwide panel-study in the Netherlands
Age at diagnosis and illness duration relate to chronically ill people's chances to participate in the labour market, but how and how strong they relate to labour participation depend on gender and the type of chronic disease at stake. Prospective studies are needed to assess illness trajectories of specific diagnostic groups along with the development of their school and work careers
Retention of Older Workers: Impact of Managers' Age Norms and Stereotypes
Delaying mandatory retirement age is one of the measures that governments across Europe propose to combat future labour force shortages. Although a growing number of older workers are willing to extend their working career, the evidence suggests that employers favour early retirement rather than retention of older workers. The current study examines how managers evaluate the desirability of postponing retirement of older workers and what is the i…
The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences
Gender Differences in Quality of Life
Despite decades of policy promoting emancipation, gender differences still constitute a major social problem in Europe. In terms of social inequality and quality of life, women run a higher risk than men of being among the disadvantaged groups (Padavic and Reskin, 2002; EC, 2008). Comparable data from the UNECE’s Gender Statistics Database show that women in each of the eight countries in this research project have a smaller chance of being econo…
Gulzige organisaties en de verdeling van betaalde en onbetaalde arbeid binnen huishoudens
Firm’s time greediness and the division of labour in the household . Although the body of literature documenting the division of labour between partners is large and continuously expanding, little is known about how demands and expectations from the workplace affect the division of labour between partners and how spouses use strategies to manage, or ‘govern’, the conflicting demands of work and family. Using data on 242 Dutch female employees, th…
The recruitment of early retirees: A vignette study of the factors that affect managers' decisions
Retirement is characterised as a dynamic process that has several different outcomes, from early retirement to re-entry to the labour force. Recent studies of the Dutch population show that a substantial number of early retirees re-enter the workforce after early retirement, but others do not succeed even though they want to return to paid work. An often-named reason for their failures is bias in the selection process. This raises the questions a…
The absence of conflict between paid-work hours and the provision of instrumental support to elderly parents among middle-aged women and men
This study assesses the relationship between the number of work hours and the provision of instrumental support to parents among 779 middle-aged women and men in dual-worker couples in The Netherlands. Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study collected during 2002–04, we estimate a simultaneous two-stage probit least-squares model, which takes into account that the competing time and financial demands of a person's engagement in paid w…
Productivity of Older Workers: Perceptions of Employers and Employees
What determines the perceived productivity of the older worker and how does this perception compare to the perception of the productivity of the younger worker? In this study we present evidence based on data from Dutch employers and employees. Productivity perceptions are affected by one's age and one's position in the hierarchy. The young favor the young, the old favor the old, and employers value the productivity of workers less than employees…
How do employers cope with an ageing workforce: Views from employers and employees
How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource
Dealing with older workers in Europe: A comparative survey of employers' attitudes and actions
This article addresses employers' attitudes and actions regarding the position of older workers. A comparative survey among employers from four European countries — Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom — is used to examine their expectations with respect to the ageing of the workforce, the productivity of older workers and their recruitment and retention behaviour regarding this cohort. The results show that in spite of the perce…
Just Like Mom? The Intergenerational Reproduction of Women's Paid Work
Given the increasing female labour force participation rates in recent decades, the question arises as to whether the daughters of working mothers show different job patterns than the daughters of homemakers. Using data from a sample of 3,169 adult women in the 2002–2004 wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, we find that women who were raised by a working mother work about two more hours per week than those raised by a homemaking mother. T…
Changing dynamics in female employment around childbirth: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK
There is a strong effect of childbirth on female labour supply.This effect, however, is changing over time.This article uses panel data on the last two decades on three European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, the UK) to study changes in female labour force behaviour around childbirth and tries to find an explanation for these changes by looking at differences between the three countries.We conclude that there are substantial differences in …
Increases in Female Labour Force Participation in Europe: Similarities and Differences
Managing an Aging Workforce and a Tight Labor Market: Views Held by Dutch Employers
Productivity of Older Workers: Perceptions of Employers and Employees
What determines the perceived productivity of the older worker and how does this perception compare to the perception of the productivity of the younger worker? In this study we present evidence based on data from Dutch employers and employees. Productivity perceptions are affected by one's age and one's position in the hierarchy. The young favor the young, the old favor the old, and employers value the productivity of workers less than employees…
Changing dynamics in female employment around childbirth: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK
There is a strong effect of childbirth on female labour supply.This effect, however, is changing over time.This article uses panel data on the last two decades on three European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, the UK) to study changes in female labour force behaviour around childbirth and tries to find an explanation for these changes by looking at differences between the three countries.We conclude that there are substantial differences in …
Dealing with older workers in Europe: A comparative survey of employers' attitudes and actions
This article addresses employers' attitudes and actions regarding the position of older workers. A comparative survey among employers from four European countries — Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom — is used to examine their expectations with respect to the ageing of the workforce, the productivity of older workers and their recruitment and retention behaviour regarding this cohort. The results show that in spite of the perce…
Towards an Equal Division of Paid and Unpaid Work: The Case of the Netherlands
Both the Netherlands and other European countries are involved in the transition from a breadwinner society towards a more individual-oriented society. What is unique in the Dutch case is the strong emphasis on the equal sharing of time, between paid and unpaid work as well as between women and men. Despite the preferences among citizens for a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, in practice it appears that general participation in paid la…
Retention of Older Workers: Impact of Managers' Age Norms and Stereotypes
Delaying mandatory retirement age is one of the measures that governments across Europe propose to combat future labour force shortages. Although a growing number of older workers are willing to extend their working career, the evidence suggests that employers favour early retirement rather than retention of older workers. The current study examines how managers evaluate the desirability of postponing retirement of older workers and what is the i…
Just Like Mom? The Intergenerational Reproduction of Women's Paid Work
Given the increasing female labour force participation rates in recent decades, the question arises as to whether the daughters of working mothers show different job patterns than the daughters of homemakers. Using data from a sample of 3,169 adult women in the 2002–2004 wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, we find that women who were raised by a working mother work about two more hours per week than those raised by a homemaking mother. T…
Increases in Female Labour Force Participation in Europe: Similarities and Differences
The recruitment of early retirees: A vignette study of the factors that affect managers' decisions
Retirement is characterised as a dynamic process that has several different outcomes, from early retirement to re-entry to the labour force. Recent studies of the Dutch population show that a substantial number of early retirees re-enter the workforce after early retirement, but others do not succeed even though they want to return to paid work. An often-named reason for their failures is bias in the selection process. This raises the questions a…
Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions: A Factorial Survey among Managers in Nine European Countries
This article analyses old-age discrimination in managers’ hypothetical hiring decisions. We expect that older job candidates are less likely to be hired than equally qualified younger candidates. Statistical discrimination theory argues that when recruiters have more information about the candidate’s skills, age is less important for hiring decisions. Given inconclusive results of previous studies, we elaborate on the theory by focusing on the co…
Managing an Aging Workforce and a Tight Labor Market: Views Held by Dutch Employers
Labour Market Flexibility in the Netherlands: Looking for Winners and Losers
Almost two decades have passed since Dutch employers, unions and the government, in their struggle against unemployment, agreed on a policy to increase labour market flexibility. Over the years the share of flexible jobs in the Netherlands has gradually increased to around ten percent. According to some parties the introduction of more labour market flexibility would lead to more inequality and a division in the labour market between workers with…
Managers’ interview invitation decisions about older job applicants: Human capital, economic conditions and job demands
Older job applicants are vulnerable to stereotype-related bias in the recruitment process. In the current study, we examined how managers’ job interview invitation decisions regarding older job applicants are influenced by applicants’ human capital-related characteristics, general economic conditions and managers’ perceptions of changes in organisational job demands. Data were collected in two waves of a vignette experiment, three years apart, am…
Training opportunities for older workers in the Netherlands: A Vignette Study
How do employers cope with an ageing workforce: Views from employers and employees
How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource
Understanding old-age adaptation policies in Europe: The influence of profit, principles and pressures
To cope with an increased proportion of older workers, organisations develop old-age adaptation policies. Two strategies underlie these policies: phasing out and activating. Although the existence of these strategies is widely recognised, the reasons for their presence have rarely been explored. We identify three arguments that explain the extent to which these strategies are present: profit, principles and pressures. We hypothesise that the inte…
Ageing Organisations and the Extension of Working Lives: A Case Study Approach
This paper examines how the economic climate and policy changes at national level have been affecting organisational practices, aimed at the extension of working lives of older workers, over the last decade. We analyse case studies conducted among Dutch organisations. Our findings show that personnel policies are typically short-term oriented and vary in their existence and content congruous to the economic climate. Policy changes in retirement a…
Career Interruptions and Women's Life-time Earnings
A distaste for insecurity: Job Preferences of Young People in the Transition to Adulthood
Given the trend towards labour market flexibility in various European countries, this article examines whether the offered type of employment contract has an impact on young people's ratings of the attractiveness of a job. It empirically assesses the notion that young people's preference for secure employment increases as they transition into adulthood. We conducted a factorial survey among a representative sample of 1,025 people aged 18-35 years…
The absence of conflict between paid-work hours and the provision of instrumental support to elderly parents among middle-aged women and men
This study assesses the relationship between the number of work hours and the provision of instrumental support to parents among 779 middle-aged women and men in dual-worker couples in The Netherlands. Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study collected during 2002–04, we estimate a simultaneous two-stage probit least-squares model, which takes into account that the competing time and financial demands of a person's engagement in paid w…
The effect of unemployment, temporary withdrawals and part-time work on workers' wage rates
In this article we discuss the effects of interruptions of labour market participation and part-time work on men's and women's gross wage rates. Workers who interrupt their labour market careers suffer from depreciation of their stock of human capital. Compared to workers who do not interrupt their careers they are even more disadvantaged because every year they do not participate, they miss experience. However, if during this period for which no…
The effect of unemployment, temporary withdrawals and part-time work on workers' wage rates
In this article we discuss the effects of interruptions of labour market participation and part-time work on men's and women's gross wage rates. Workers who interrupt their labour market careers suffer from depreciation of their stock of human capital. Compared to workers who do not interrupt their careers they are even more disadvantaged because every year they do not participate, they miss experience. However, if during this period for which no…
Career Interruptions and Women's Life-time Earnings
Work‐family arrangements and gender inequality in Europe
Focuses on how government policy regarding work‐family arrangements affects the labour market position of women and men in the European Union. Discusses the statutory provisions of three different work‐family arrangements: leave arrangements, child care and part‐time work. Finds that the development of work‐family arrangements differs between member states, although these differences can be placed in a typology of welfare state regimes. To determ…
Towards an Equal Division of Paid and Unpaid Work: The Case of the Netherlands
Both the Netherlands and other European countries are involved in the transition from a breadwinner society towards a more individual-oriented society. What is unique in the Dutch case is the strong emphasis on the equal sharing of time, between paid and unpaid work as well as between women and men. Despite the preferences among citizens for a more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, in practice it appears that general participation in paid la…
Labour Market Flexibility in the Netherlands: Looking for Winners and Losers
Almost two decades have passed since Dutch employers, unions and the government, in their struggle against unemployment, agreed on a policy to increase labour market flexibility. Over the years the share of flexible jobs in the Netherlands has gradually increased to around ten percent. According to some parties the introduction of more labour market flexibility would lead to more inequality and a division in the labour market between workers with…
Managing an Aging Workforce and a Tight Labor Market: Views Held by Dutch Employers
Increases in Female Labour Force Participation in Europe: Similarities and Differences
Changing dynamics in female employment around childbirth: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands and the UK
There is a strong effect of childbirth on female labour supply.This effect, however, is changing over time.This article uses panel data on the last two decades on three European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, the UK) to study changes in female labour force behaviour around childbirth and tries to find an explanation for these changes by looking at differences between the three countries.We conclude that there are substantial differences in …
Just Like Mom? The Intergenerational Reproduction of Women's Paid Work
Given the increasing female labour force participation rates in recent decades, the question arises as to whether the daughters of working mothers show different job patterns than the daughters of homemakers. Using data from a sample of 3,169 adult women in the 2002–2004 wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, we find that women who were raised by a working mother work about two more hours per week than those raised by a homemaking mother. T…
Dealing with older workers in Europe: A comparative survey of employers' attitudes and actions
This article addresses employers' attitudes and actions regarding the position of older workers. A comparative survey among employers from four European countries — Greece, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom — is used to examine their expectations with respect to the ageing of the workforce, the productivity of older workers and their recruitment and retention behaviour regarding this cohort. The results show that in spite of the perce…
The absence of conflict between paid-work hours and the provision of instrumental support to elderly parents among middle-aged women and men
This study assesses the relationship between the number of work hours and the provision of instrumental support to parents among 779 middle-aged women and men in dual-worker couples in The Netherlands. Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study collected during 2002–04, we estimate a simultaneous two-stage probit least-squares model, which takes into account that the competing time and financial demands of a person's engagement in paid w…
Productivity of Older Workers: Perceptions of Employers and Employees
What determines the perceived productivity of the older worker and how does this perception compare to the perception of the productivity of the younger worker? In this study we present evidence based on data from Dutch employers and employees. Productivity perceptions are affected by one's age and one's position in the hierarchy. The young favor the young, the old favor the old, and employers value the productivity of workers less than employees…
How do employers cope with an ageing workforce: Views from employers and employees
How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource
The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies: Late Fertility and its Consequences
Gender Differences in Quality of Life
Despite decades of policy promoting emancipation, gender differences still constitute a major social problem in Europe. In terms of social inequality and quality of life, women run a higher risk than men of being among the disadvantaged groups (Padavic and Reskin, 2002; EC, 2008). Comparable data from the UNECE’s Gender Statistics Database show that women in each of the eight countries in this research project have a smaller chance of being econo…
Gulzige organisaties en de verdeling van betaalde en onbetaalde arbeid binnen huishoudens
Firm’s time greediness and the division of labour in the household . Although the body of literature documenting the division of labour between partners is large and continuously expanding, little is known about how demands and expectations from the workplace affect the division of labour between partners and how spouses use strategies to manage, or ‘govern’, the conflicting demands of work and family. Using data on 242 Dutch female employees, th…
The recruitment of early retirees: A vignette study of the factors that affect managers' decisions
Retirement is characterised as a dynamic process that has several different outcomes, from early retirement to re-entry to the labour force. Recent studies of the Dutch population show that a substantial number of early retirees re-enter the workforce after early retirement, but others do not succeed even though they want to return to paid work. An often-named reason for their failures is bias in the selection process. This raises the questions a…
The importance of illness duration, age at diagnosis and the year of diagnosis for labour participation chances of people with chronic illness: Results of a nationwide panel-study in the Netherlands
Age at diagnosis and illness duration relate to chronically ill people's chances to participate in the labour market, but how and how strong they relate to labour participation depend on gender and the type of chronic disease at stake. Prospective studies are needed to assess illness trajectories of specific diagnostic groups along with the development of their school and work careers
Retention of Older Workers: Impact of Managers' Age Norms and Stereotypes
Delaying mandatory retirement age is one of the measures that governments across Europe propose to combat future labour force shortages. Although a growing number of older workers are willing to extend their working career, the evidence suggests that employers favour early retirement rather than retention of older workers. The current study examines how managers evaluate the desirability of postponing retirement of older workers and what is the i…
Ageing Organisations and the Extension of Working Lives: A Case Study Approach
This paper examines how the economic climate and policy changes at national level have been affecting organisational practices, aimed at the extension of working lives of older workers, over the last decade. We analyse case studies conducted among Dutch organisations. Our findings show that personnel policies are typically short-term oriented and vary in their existence and content congruous to the economic climate. Policy changes in retirement a…
Training opportunities for older workers in the Netherlands: A Vignette Study
Managers’ interview invitation decisions about older job applicants: Human capital, economic conditions and job demands
Older job applicants are vulnerable to stereotype-related bias in the recruitment process. In the current study, we examined how managers’ job interview invitation decisions regarding older job applicants are influenced by applicants’ human capital-related characteristics, general economic conditions and managers’ perceptions of changes in organisational job demands. Data were collected in two waves of a vignette experiment, three years apart, am…
Self-Employment as Precarious Work
Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address bo…
Work-Family Conflict in the European Union: The Impact of Organizational and Public Facilities
Today, as an increasing share of women and men is involved in both paid tasks at work and unpaid care tasks for children and other relatives, more people are at risk of work-family conflict, which can be a major threat to well-being and mental, but also physical health. Both organizations and governments invest in arrangements that are meant to support individuals in finding a balance between work and family life. The twofold goal of our article …
Understanding old-age adaptation policies in Europe: The influence of profit, principles and pressures
To cope with an increased proportion of older workers, organisations develop old-age adaptation policies. Two strategies underlie these policies: phasing out and activating. Although the existence of these strategies is widely recognised, the reasons for their presence have rarely been explored. We identify three arguments that explain the extent to which these strategies are present: profit, principles and pressures. We hypothesise that the inte…
Economics (25 works) · Demographic economics (20 works) · Labour economics (18 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (12 works)