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Alterung und technologisches Innovationspotential : Eine Linked-Employer-Employee-Analyse
Schneider, Lutz - 2007
question rises, whether the trend of an ageing workforce will affect the innovation capacities of these economies. To answer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269963
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294455
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Wages and ageing: is there evidence for the inverse-U profile?
Myck, Michał - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276038
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Bridge jobs in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2012
We study the transitions from career to bridge jobs and to permanent retirement by European males aged 55 to 70 at the time of the interview in the late 2000s. We find that only 10.54 percent of the workers in our sample who were in a career job at age 50 have moved to a bridge job by the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289975
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291425
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Kiszorítják-e az idősebb munkavállalók a fiatalokat a közszférában? Eredmények a magyarországi nyugdíjkorhatár-emelés időszakából
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2013
This study investigates the crowding out effect among old and young workers in the Hungarian public sector, using job-level data. The analysis improves upon analyses based on aggregate data by considering the levels of employment for various labour types and the employment opportunities and...
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Ageing and Skills: A Review and Analysis of Skill Gain and Skill Loss Over the Lifespan and Over Time
Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2012
The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of … population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add … considerably to the understanding of the relationship between ageing and foundation skills. In particular, the fact that data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308303
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Aging in the social space
Tomczyk, Łukasz; Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2015
A publication called Aging in the Social Space is a compilation of studies, which deal with theoretical understanding and empirical solutions, learning about problem spheres, specifying content parallels of social, legal, economic, moral and ethical views on senior issues in society, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420364
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Unemployment and self-concept
Redek, Tjaša; Sušjan, Andrej; Kostevc, Črt - In: Economic research (2013), pp. 185-200
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Demographic pressure in the European Union
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2012
On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...
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