This paper investigates how age diversity within a companyÕs workforce affects company productivity. It introduces a theoretical framework that helps to integrate results from a broad disciplinary spectrum of ageing and diversity research to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the effects...

Field studies linking workforce age to performance tend to treat performance as one-dimensional and often focus on individual, not organizational performance. To analyze the effects of workforce age on organizational performance, we suggest treating performance as multi-dimensional with at least...

Der Beitrag untersucht Effekte der Alterung von Beschäftigten auf die betriebliche Produktivität. Anhand des LIAB, eines verknüpften Arbeitnehmer-Arbeitgeber Datensatzes mit Panel-Struktur, kann für Deutschland empirisch gezeigt werden, dass der Alterseffekt auf die Produktivität von...

We analyse how the age structure of a company’s workforce affects company performance using a linked employer employee panel dataset. With demographic changes at hand, this is of utmost importance for firms and organisations. Focussing on the organizational, not the individual level, we...

Central exams have been discussed as an incentive to improve educational outcomes. In our paper we study the impact of central exams on labor market outcomes. We explain the quality choice of schools under central and non-central exams and model the resulting students’ schooling decisions and...

Central exams have been discussed as an incentive to improve educational outcomes. In our paper we study the impact of central exams on labor market outcomes. We explain the quality choice of schools under central and non-central exams and model the resulting students’ schooling decisions and...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the main challenges imposed by demographic change on the human resource management (HRM) policies of German companies. Although many more aspects of business are affected by demographic change, such as changes in consumption or in savings and...

Der demographische Wandel führt zu älteren und altersheterogeneren Belegschaften, was sich auf die betriebliche Produktivität auswirken könnte. Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, ist es zunächst entscheidend zu wissen, wie sich individuelle Produktivität mit dem Alter entwickelt. Dieser Beitrag...