Ageing, Productivity and Wages in Austria: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set at the Sector Level

ECON Working Paper No. 02/2011

26 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2012

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Bernhard Mahlberg

Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Production Management; Institute for Industrial Research (IWI)

Inga Freund

University of Vienna - Vienna Institute of Demography

Alexia Prskawetz

Austrian Academy of Sciences - Vienna Institute of Demography

Date Written: April 15, 2011

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the link between the age structure of the labor force and average labor productivity at the intermediate level of economic sectors. The analysis is based on a panel data set ranging over six years (2002-2007) and covers the sectors of mining, manufacturing and market oriented services in the Austrian economy. Our results exhibit a positive correlation of the share of older employees and productivity, while we cannot find any evidence for a significant relationship of the share of younger employees and productivity. Moreover, the estimated age-wage pattern does not hint at an over-payment of older employees.

Keywords: ageing workforce, production function, age-productivity profile, age-wage pattern

JEL Classification: J14, J24, J82

Suggested Citation

Mahlberg, Bernhard and Mahlberg, Bernhard and Freund, Inga and Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia, Ageing, Productivity and Wages in Austria: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set at the Sector Level (April 15, 2011). ECON Working Paper No. 02/2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2000161 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2000161

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Inga Freund

University of Vienna - Vienna Institute of Demography ( email )

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Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Austrian Academy of Sciences - Vienna Institute of Demography ( email )

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Vienna, 1040
Austria

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