We analyse the extent and determinants of somewhat gloomy employment prospects of older unemployed populations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. For this purpose, we explore the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions over the period 2004-2014. Survival estimates suggest that older unemployed workers face lower job-finding probabilities compared to prime-age unemployed workers, while this age-based gap increases with longer unemployment spells. The results of estimating the hazard models reveal that the job-finding probability of older unemployed workers is about 20-25% lower than that of the prime-age group, even after controlling for explanatory covariates and unobserved heterogeneity. Unemployment duration appears to be the major determinant of job-finding probability within both age groups. In contrast, the impact of explanatory covariates (gender, education, household characteristics, etc.) is relatively less robust and/or uniform.

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评估老年人和高级工人的求职概率

我们分析了奥地利，捷克共和国，波兰和斯洛伐克的较老的失业人口的就业前景的程度和决定因素。为此，我们探索了欧洲联盟2004-2014年收入和生活条件的统计数据。生存估计表明，与精龄失业工人相比，老年失业工人面临的寻找工作的可能性较低，而随着年龄的增长，失业时间越长，差距越大。危害模型的估计结果表明，即使在控制了解释性协变量和未观察到的异质性之后，老年失业工人的就业机会也比黄金年龄组低约20-25％。失业时间似乎是两个年龄组中寻找工作机会的主要决定因素。相反，