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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a positive effect of mixed-aged team work on employment duration and a …
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IT is never too late for changes? : analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the … appropriate IT skills. -- Process innovation ; information technology ; older workers …
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675512
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment
Arni, Patrick - 2015
Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449227
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Labor force activity after 60 : recent trends in the Scandinavian countries with Germany as a benchmark
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2015
In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the 1990s. The development in the same period in the German labor market is included as a frame of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347283
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Demographic aging and employment dynamics in German regions : modeling regional heterogeneity
Graaff, Thomas de; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Ozgen, Ceren - 2017
Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is scrutinized at the regional level. We focus on modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647469
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The relationship between establishment training and the retention of older workers : evidence from Germany
Berg, Peter; Hamman, Mary K.; Piszczek, Matthew; Ruhm, … - 2015
In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for managing this demographic transition. This study examines relationships between establishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388014
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Can policy facilitate partial retirement? : evidence from Germany
Berg, Peter; Hamman, Mary K.; Piszczek, Matthew; Ruhm, … - 2015
In 1996, Germany introduced the Altersteilzeit (ATZ) law, which encouraged longer working lives through partial retirement incentives. Using matched pension system and establishment survey data, we estimate changes in part-time employment and retirement after ATZ. We find the policy induced...
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