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This paper estimates and discusses some of the potential labour market implications arising from the rapid ageing of … government employees in a number of OECD countries. Under alternative scenarios for future public employment policies, available …. Alternatively, productivity in the government sector would have to increase substantially.<P>Conséquences sur le marché du travail …
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age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …
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We provide new empirical evidence on the link between age and productivity using a transitional context. Building on a … - in line with the model - the within firm productivity differential between older and younger workers following the … transition was largest among the highly skilled (-0.13 in 1996-2000). The fall in relative productivity followed the inflow of …
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Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising … concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The … articles in this special issue of Labour Economics define and address key issues with respect to the interplay of ageing …
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The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …
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solution. A comprehensive approach is needed. Countries with declining and ageing workforces need to sustain or raise … productivity. Countries with growing labour forces need to embark in growth patterns that are labour intensive, offer possibilities … for dynamic structural change and productivity increases. Both cases require investments in education, skill formation and …
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This review article discusses the volume Ageing, Health and Productivity: The Economics of Increased Life Expectancy …, which provides a detailed examination of the relationship between ageing and productivity. While the authors find some … evidence of a negative effect of ageing on productivity, they conclude that at the aggregate level the effect is small. The …
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