Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24715 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 08-021
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm?s proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm?s IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information technologies employ a significantly smaller proportion of older workers than firms that are less IT-intensive. However, higher participation rates of older workers in IT training are related to a larger proportion of older workers within firms. It turns out that this effect is of particular importance in firms that intensively use IT.
Subjects: 
older workers
IT training
information technologies
JEL: 
J24
J21
J14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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