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

Matthias Weiss and Axel Börsch-Supan

VfS Annual Conference 2011 (Frankfurt, Main): The Order of the World Economy - Lessons from the Crisis from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

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 re-lated 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 does not decline at least up to age 60.

Keywords: Age-Productivity; Profiles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J14 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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