We assess the relation between firms' productivity levels and the age composition of the employees using a unique Austrian dataset. We control for firm-specific characteristics (including number of employees, firm type and size) as well as employees' characteristics (including age, length and...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 represents a special challenge for businesses in general and for SMEs in particular. The study at hand will examine companies' awareness, readiness and capability to meet this challenge taking into account the special role of SMEs Design/methodology/approach: The results of...