Carsten Ochsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carsten Ochsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Ochsen |
| SIGNATURE | OCHSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4178-4249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The hiring of older workers
This article analyses how hiring older workers adjusts to demographic change in the labour force by using information from more than 500,000 firms in Germany. We find robust evidence that firms faced with an ageing labour market hire relatively more older workers. However, the pace of this adjustment is relatively slow, particularly when ageing happens outside the firm. The tendency to employ older people is more considerable in East Germany, whe…
On the peripheral-urban wage gap in Germany
Age cohort effects on unemployment in the USA
Who benefits from labor market institutions? Evidence from surveys of life satisfaction
Subjective well‐being and aggregate unemployment
According to the literature, individual well‐being is negatively related to aggregate unemployment. This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects well‐being, in addition to the level of unemployment. Different explanations are provided to indicate how the shares of short‐term (up to 3 months) and long‐term (more than 1 year) unemployed people could affect the well‐being of the employed and unemployed. …
Labour Markets and Demographic Change
This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct i
Who benefits from labor market institutions? Evidence from surveys of life satisfaction
Subjective well‐being and aggregate unemployment
According to the literature, individual well‐being is negatively related to aggregate unemployment. This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects well‐being, in addition to the level of unemployment. Different explanations are provided to indicate how the shares of short‐term (up to 3 months) and long‐term (more than 1 year) unemployed people could affect the well‐being of the employed and unemployed. …
Labour Markets and Demographic Change
This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct i
Subjective well‐being and aggregate unemployment
According to the literature, individual well‐being is negatively related to aggregate unemployment. This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects well‐being, in addition to the level of unemployment. Different explanations are provided to indicate how the shares of short‐term (up to 3 months) and long‐term (more than 1 year) unemployed people could affect the well‐being of the employed and unemployed. …
Who benefits from labor market institutions? Evidence from surveys of life satisfaction
Age cohort effects on unemployment in the USA
On the peripheral-urban wage gap in Germany
The hiring of older workers
This article analyses how hiring older workers adjusts to demographic change in the labour force by using information from more than 500,000 firms in Germany. We find robust evidence that firms faced with an ageing labour market hire relatively more older workers. However, the pace of this adjustment is relatively slow, particularly when ageing happens outside the firm. The tendency to employ older people is more considerable in East Germany, whe…
Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Demography (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Unemployment (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demography (2 works)