and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage … growth is faster than productivity growth for young workers but after age 40 both wages and productivity grow approximately …

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity … profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …