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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...
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Ageing and skills : the case of literacy skills
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019
The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD...
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Wages, productivity and aging
Dostie, Benoît (contributor) - 2006
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
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Influence in economics and aging
Jelnov, Pavel; Weiss, Yoram - 2020
We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...
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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2018
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
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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 … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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The effects of aging on migration in a transition economy : the case of China
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
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