Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36360 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4765
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel dataset from Dutch manufacturing covering the period 2000-2005. We find little evidence of an age related pay-productivity gap.
Subjects: 
Age
wage
productivity
JEL: 
J23
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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