academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

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 …

productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive … most likely mechanisms for this effect on task-specific productivity. …