Do Older Workers obstruct IT-enabled Productivity? Firm-level Evidence from Germany
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The paper analyses the relationship between labour productivity, the proportion of older employees and IT intensity in firms. Using firm-level data from German manufacturing and services industries, we find that workers older than 49 are not significantly less productive than prime age workers, whereas workers younger than 30 are significantly less productive than prime age workers. There is no significant interaction between the proportion of older workers and IT intensity, thus, older workers do not obstruct IT-enabled labour productivity. Moreover, older workers using a computer are more productive than older non-computer users — a result which is in line with previous findings obtained independently of the age structure of employees. JEL-classification: J14, J24, O33
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