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 … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

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 … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

In Germany, a thread to growth is perceived from demographic change. Demographic change means that a population is … sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … inventivity. Specifically, we confirm past conjectures that inventive productivity is age dependent and unequally distributed …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage … growth is faster than productivity growth for young workers but after age 40 both wages and productivity grow approximately …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally … observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …