Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

This empirical paper documents the relationship between the composition of a firm’s workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Finance and Management, Warsaw; Vistula University 2014-03-01
Series:Contemporary Economics
Online Access:http://ce.vizja.pl/en/download-pdf/id/331