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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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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

demographic aging mainly increasing the older workforce and shrinking the younger one, our results imply that innovation levels in … of the innovation gap across German regions. …

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Computer use and the employment status of older workers - an analysis based on individual data

Schleife, Katrin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the elderly : a success story from Finnland

Kyyrä, Tomi (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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

Goebel, 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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Why training older employees is less effective

Zwick, Thomas - 2011

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...

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Age and productivity : sector differences?

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...

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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany

Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009

From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...

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