Productivity and the Age Composition of Work Teams : Evidence from the Assembly Line

This paper studies the relation between workers' age and their productivity in work teams. We explore a unique data set that combines data on errors occurring in the production process of a large car manufacturer with detailed information on the personal characteristics of workers responsible for the errors. We do not find evidence that productivity declines with age

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Börsch-Supan, Axel ; Weiss, Matthias
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Arbeitsgruppe \| Team \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Labour productivity \| Kfz-Industrie \| Automotive industry \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Ältere Arbeitskräfte \| Older workers \| Produktivität \| Productivity

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