-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the … analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the enhancement of teamwork on the probability of adopting new … adopt new technologies and the older the workforce is, the less likely is the adoption of new technologies. Secondly, the …

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 … deviations point to important variation in the age productivity profile among establishments. -- ageing workforce ; age …

. In this paper, we apply censored quantile regression techniques to estimate employment durations of male workers in …

representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We find that the relative productivity contributions of old workers are … significantly higher in establishments that provide either specific equipment of work places or age-specific jobs for old workers … recent findings, the only modest decline of the productivity contributions of old workers and the high variance for estimates …

sets. Third, the LPP covers a wide range of firms and workers from different backgrounds. Finally, because of its …

among German selfemployed and employed workers in 1991/92. Participation in continuous formal training is more frequently … observed with employed workers, whereas self-employed are engaged more often in non-formal types of training. Estimated effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the …

between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with … a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less … likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be …