Table III Average marginal effects of...

Table III

Average marginal effects of structural characteristics, retirement age norm and stereotypes on preferring younger or older workers for hiring a new employee

	Hiring
	Prefer younger workers		Neutral		Prefer older workers
	AME	SE	AME	SE	AME	SE
Organisational characteristics
Sector (ref.=public sector)
Industry	0.07	0.05	−0.07	0.05	0.00	0.02
Services and trade	0.03	0.05	−0.02	0.05	−0.01	0.01
Size (ref.=small)
Medium	−0.01	0.04	0.03	0.04	−0.03*	0.01
Large	−0.11**	0.04	0.14**	0.04	−0.03	0.02
Proportion of older employees	0.07	0.09	−0.09	0.09	0.02	0.03
Proportion flexible contract employees	0.05	0.10	−0.12	0.10	0.07**	0.02
Proportion part-time employees	0.04	0.07	−0.06	0.07	0.02	0.02
Manager’s characteristics
Female (ref.=male)	−0.09*	0.04	0.10**	0.04	−0.01	0.01
Age	−0.002	0.00	0.002	0.00	0.000	0.00
Retirement age norm	−0.01	0.00	0.01*	0.00	0.00	0.00
Hard qualities stereotypes	−0.07	0.04	0.07	0.04	0.00	0.02
Soft qualities stereotypes	−0.12*	0.05	0.11*	0.05	0.01	0.02
n	960
χ²(24)	60.01***
McFadden’s (pseudo) R²	0.040

	Hiring
	Prefer younger workers		Neutral		Prefer older workers
	AME	SE	AME	SE	AME	SE
Organisational characteristics
Sector (ref.=public sector)
Industry	0.07	0.05	−0.07	0.05	0.00	0.02
Services and trade	0.03	0.05	−0.02	0.05	−0.01	0.01
Size (ref.=small)
Medium	−0.01	0.04	0.03	0.04	−0.03*	0.01
Large	−0.11**	0.04	0.14**	0.04	−0.03	0.02
Proportion of older employees	0.07	0.09	−0.09	0.09	0.02	0.03
Proportion flexible contract employees	0.05	0.10	−0.12	0.10	0.07**	0.02
Proportion part-time employees	0.04	0.07	−0.06	0.07	0.02	0.02
Manager’s characteristics
Female (ref.=male)	−0.09*	0.04	0.10**	0.04	−0.01	0.01
Age	−0.002	0.00	0.002	0.00	0.000	0.00
Retirement age norm	−0.01	0.00	0.01*	0.00	0.00	0.00
Hard qualities stereotypes	−0.07	0.04	0.07	0.04	0.00	0.02
Soft qualities stereotypes	−0.12*	0.05	0.11*	0.05	0.01	0.02
n	960
χ²(24)	60.01***
McFadden’s (pseudo) R²	0.040

Notes: AME, average marginal effect; SE, standard error. *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001

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