teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … and firms when individual productivity would have been perfectly observable. From our analysis we conclude that individual … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

, and that the age-productivity gradient is heterogeneous by ability, making fixed effects estimators inconsistent. Since we … repopulates the sample by applying to older cohorts the self-selection patterns observed in younger cohorts. We estimate the age-productivity … adequately address endogenous selection in the former leads to substantially over-estimating productivity at any age relative to …

human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be …