Table 1 Operationalisation of the explanatory variables.
From: After early retirement: the variety of human-resource strategies of firms towards older employees
Operationalisation | Expected correlation with the provision of age-specific personnel measures | Expected correlation with the recruitment of older employees | |
|---|---|---|---|
Resources | Company size (log number of employees) | + | + |
HRM-Index (index which specifies how many instruments of personnel management (e.g., qualification-need analyses, target agreements) a company uses; can take values between 0 and 3 | + | + | |
Provision of further training (Dummy) | + | + | |
Context of work relations | Existence of a works council (Dummy) | + | − |
Commitment to a collective agreement (Dummy) | + | 0 | |
Experiences with older employees | Share of older employees (in the previous year) | + | + |
Needs for skilled workers | Company experiences difficulties in meeting its demand for skilled workers (Dummy) | + | + |
Job requirements and work environment | Modern technical equipment (Dummy) | + | 0 |
Investments in company equipment and/or ICT | + | 0 | |
Share of skilled employees | + | 0 | |
Sector affiliation (10 dummies; Reference category: public administration/non-profit organisations) | 0 | 0 |