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dc.contributor.authorPfeifer, Christianen
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Joachimen
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-22-
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-17T12:53:59Z-
dc.date.available2012-04-17T12:53:59Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57124-
dc.description.abstractThis empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the statistics of employees covered by social security that is aggregated at the enterprise level and information from enterprise level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger share of female employees. This finding might indicate that lower productivity of women is (over)compensated by lower wage costs for women, which might be driven by general labor market discrimination against women.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLeuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre |cLüneburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper Series in Economics |x232en
dc.subject.jelD22en
dc.subject.jelD24en
dc.subject.jelJ21en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelL25en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordageingen
dc.subject.keywordfirm performanceen
dc.subject.keywordgenderen
dc.subject.keywordproductivityen
dc.subject.keywordprofitabilityen
dc.subject.keywordGermanyen
dc.subject.stwArbeitskräfteen
dc.subject.stwAltersgruppeen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechten
dc.subject.stwUnternehmensentwicklungen
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwRentabilitäten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwVerarbeitendes Gewerbeen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleAge and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn686614550en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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