Productivity and age: Evidence from work teams at the assembly line

Axel Börsch-Supan and Matthias Weiss

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, vol. 7, issue C, 30-42

Abstract: The authors study the relation between workers’ age and their productivity in work teams, based on a new and 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 related to the errors. The authors correct for non-random sample selection and the potential endogeneity of the age-composition in work teams. The results suggest that productivity in this plant which is typical for large-scale manufacturing does not decline at least up to age 60.

Keywords: Age-productivity profiles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.12.001

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