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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010

In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - 2004

This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...

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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers

Schleife, Katrin - 2008

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm?s proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm?s IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...

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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2008

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

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