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

Börsch-Supan, Axel () and Matthias Weiss

No 7148, MEA discussion paper series from Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Abstract: We 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. We correct for non-random sample selection and the potential endogeneity of the age-composition in work teams. Our results suggest that productivity in this plant which is typical for large-scale manufacturing does not decline at least up to age 60.

JEL-codes: D24 J14 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01-19
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