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

Axel Börsch-Supan; Matthias Weiss

doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.12.001

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

Axel Börsch-Supan
, Matthias Weiss

Chair of Economics of Aging

Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
University of Maastricht

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-42
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.12.001
State	Published - 2016

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Age-productivity profiles

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