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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010

Das Durchschnittsalter der Arbeitnehmer stieg in einem Großteil der westlichen Industrienationen während der letzten … Jahre stark an. Falls ältere Arbeitnehmer eine niedrigere Produktivität haben sollten als jüngere Arbeitnehmer, dann kommt … spezielle Ausstattung der Arbeitsplätze älterer Arbeitnehmer mit einer signifikant höheren Produktivität älterer Arbeitnehmer …

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Beware of the Employer : Financial Incentives for Employees May Fail to Prolong Old Age Employment

Lorenz, Svenja - 2020

This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge...

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Early Retirement of Employees in Demanding Jobs : Evidence from a German Pension Reform

Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at-risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...

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Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...

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Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In...

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Early Retirement of Employees in Demanding Jobs : Evidence from a German Pension Reform

Zwick, Thomas; Lorenz, Svenja; Geyer, Johannes; Bruns, Mona - 2022

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at-risk group comprises older employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311077

Early Retirement of Employees in Demanding Jobs : Evidence From a German Pension Reform

Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021

Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311783