@article{Weiss, author = {Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Erfahrung kompensiert nachlassende F{\"a}higkeiten}, series = {Personalf{\"u}hrung}, journal = {Personalf{\"u}hrung}, number = {1}, pages = {56 -- 58}, language = {de} } @article{BoerschSupanWeiss, author = {Boersch-Supan, Axel and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Productivity and age: Evidence from work teams at the assembly line}, series = {Journal of the economics of ageing}, journal = {Journal of the economics of ageing}, number = {7}, publisher = {Elsevier}, doi = {10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.12.001}, pages = {30 -- 42}, abstract = {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. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Age and Productivity: An Analysis at the Plant and the Team Level}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0014}, pages = {189 -- 214}, abstract = {This chapter presents and compares results from two studies that analyse the same research questions with different data sets. The first study analyses data on productivity at the level of work teams in one single plant. The tasks in this plant are rather homogeneous and age-productivity profiles can be estimated fairly precisely. But the results cannot be generalized to other parts of the economy. The other study analyses the Finnish Linked Employer Employee Data (FLEED), which provide information on productivity at the plant level for the Finnish economy. At this aggregate level, age-productivity profiles are obviously cruder. On the other hand, the results apply to a large part of the entire Finnish economy and can easily be generalized to other developed economies. The linked data also make it possible to compare productivity and wage profiles by age.}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Age and Absenteeism}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0012}, pages = {163 -- 178}, abstract = {This chapter explores absenteeism using two different kinds of data. One is a unique data set of workers in a German truck assembly plant where the chapter identifies workers who work together in a team on a daily basis. Thus, the chapter is able to relate the probability of absence of a worker to characteristics of the work team. Characteristics of the work team in this study include team size, and measures of diversity with respect to age, nationality, education, and age. The second data set is a Finnish survey based on a representative sample of persons in paid employment. Besides working conditions, personal characteristics, and work experience, it includes information on the number and duration absences.}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Conclusions and Policy Implications}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0015}, pages = {215 -- 219}, abstract = {This concluding chapter contributes to the discussion in two ways. First, it presents a 'grand view' in which it discusses the various components of productivity in detail, and then looks at long-term historical developments where changing economic structures are taken into account. Second, it presents results from an empirical analysis in which it considers both the 'extensive margin' of productivity (absenteeism at an individual level) and the 'intensive margin' of productivity (productivity conditional on being present at work at a group level or firm level).}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Age and Working Capacity}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0013}, pages = {179 -- 188}, abstract = {This chapter examines how the subjective assessment of work capacity is related to age using the Finnish Quality of Working Life Survey (QWLS) from the year 2003. The results provide clear evidence that employees' own assessment of their working capacity falls with age while there is no corresponding decline in wages by age. However, the fall in working capacity is not dramatic, as the majority of the older age groups still consider their working capacity to be relatively high in a scale from 0 to 10. Age affects working capacity, as least to the extent that the employees themselves think so.}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Setting the Stage}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0010}, pages = {137 -- 149}, abstract = {This study deals with the relationship between age and productivity to investigate whether indeed there is reason to worry about the negative effects of population ageing on labour market performance.}, language = {en} } @incollection{IlmakunnasvanOursSkirbekketal., author = {Ilmakunnas, Pekka and van Ours, Jan and Skirbekk, Vegard and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {The Grand View on Age and Productivity}, series = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, booktitle = {Ageing, health, and productivity : The economics of increased life expectancy}, editor = {Garibaldi, Pietro}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780199587131}, doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587131.003.0011}, pages = {150 -- 162}, abstract = {This chapter investigates the shape and peak of the relation between age and productivity and under which circumstances specific age-productivity profiles exist. It starts by reviewing the main approaches used to estimate productivity by age: supervisors' evaluations, measuring the quantity and quality produced, analyses of large-scale employer-employee datasets and studies of age-earnings structures. Thereafter, it discusses potential causes of job performance variation by age, and how changes in abilities and health by age and variations in the workplace requirements are likely to alter age-variation in productivity over time.}, language = {en} } @book{BoerschSupanHunklerWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and Hunkler, Christian and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Big Data at Work}, address = {Regensburg}, organization = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg / Fakult{\"a}t Betriebswirtschaft}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-21637}, publisher = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg}, pages = {59}, abstract = {Does productivity decline with age? Does population aging harm economic growth? We exploit process-generated data from a large and typical service-sector company. We find no decline in average productivity in the age range of 20-60. This result is precisely measured. Our innovative identification strategy corrects for sample selection, endogeneity of age composition and age-cohort confounding. Our big data are essential to extract the signal from the noise that has marred many previous studies. While average productivity stays flat, we find variation according to task complexity. Productivity increases with age in teams with more demanding tasks and decreases in routine tasks.}, subject = {Arbeitsproduktivit{\"a}t}, language = {en} } @article{BoerschSupanDuezguenWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and D{\"u}zg{\"u}n, Ismail and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Altern und Produktivit{\"a}t}, series = {Personalf{\"u}hrung}, journal = {Personalf{\"u}hrung}, number = {07}, pages = {74 -- 81}, abstract = {Der Zusammenhang zwischen Alter und Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit von Besch{\"a}ftigten wird in den verschiedensten Disziplinen untersucht - mit zum Teil recht unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber die Literatur und diskutiert die Notwendigkeit einer neuen Sicht der Produktivit{\"a}tsmessung. Bisherige Studien besch{\"a}ftigen sich mit der Messung der individuellen Produktivit{\"a}t. In einer modernen arbeitsteiligen Gesellschaft realisiert sich die Arbeitsproduktivit{\"a}t allerdings weniger in der Einzelperson als vielmehr im Zusammenwirken von j{\"u}ngeren (innovativen, flexiblen?) und {\"a}lteren (erfahrenen?) Mitarbeitern.}, language = {de} } @incollection{BoerschSupanDuezguenWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and D{\"u}zg{\"u}n, Ismail and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Altern und Produktivit{\"a}t}, series = {Produktivit{\"a}t in alternden Gesellschaften}, booktitle = {Produktivit{\"a}t in alternden Gesellschaften}, editor = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and Erlinghagen, Marcel and Hank, Karsten and J{\"u}rges, Hendrik and Wagner, Gert G.}, publisher = {Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH}, address = {Stuttgart}, pages = {53 -- 62}, subject = {Alternde Bev{\"o}lkerung}, language = {de} } @incollection{BoerschSupanDuezguenWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and D{\"u}zg{\"u}n, Ismail and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Sinkende Produktivit{\"a}t alternder Belegschaften?}, series = {L{\"a}nger leben, arbeiten und sich engagieren. Chancen werteschaffender Besch{\"a}ftigung bis ins Alter}, booktitle = {L{\"a}nger leben, arbeiten und sich engagieren. Chancen werteschaffender Besch{\"a}ftigung bis ins Alter}, editor = {Prager, Jens U. and Schleiter (Hrsg.), Andr{\´e}}, publisher = {Bertelsmann Stiftung}, address = {G{\"u}tersloh}, isbn = {3892049130}, pages = {85 -- 102}, language = {de} } @article{BoerschSupanWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Erfahrungswissen in der Arbeitswelt}, series = {Potenziale im Altern. Chancen und Aufgaben f{\"u}r Individuum und Gesellschaft}, journal = {Potenziale im Altern. Chancen und Aufgaben f{\"u}r Individuum und Gesellschaft}, editor = {Kruse, Andreas}, publisher = {AKA}, address = {Heidelberg}, pages = {221 -- 234}, language = {de} } @article{BoerschSupanHunklerWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and Hunkler, Christian and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Big data at work: Age and labor productivity in the service sector}, series = {The Journal of the Economics of Ageing}, volume = {19}, journal = {The Journal of the Economics of Ageing}, publisher = {Elsevier}, doi = {10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100319}, abstract = {Does productivity decline with age? Does population aging harm economic growth? We exploit process-generated data from a large and typical service-sector company. We find no decline in average productivity in the age range of 20-60. This result is precisely measured. Our innovative identification strategy corrects for sample selection, endogeneity of age composition and age-cohort confounding. Our big data are essential to extract the signal from the noise that has marred many previous studies. While average productivity stays flat, we find variation according to task complexity. Productivity increases with age in teams with more demanding tasks and decreases in routine tasks.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Weiss, author = {Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Labor Market Effects of Technological Change and Working Time Reduction}, language = {en} } @incollection{BoerschSupanWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Productivity in an Aging World}, series = {The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing}, editor = {Bloom, David and Souza-Poza, Alphonso and Sunde, Uwe}, edition = {1st edition}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, isbn = {9780367713324}, doi = {10.4324/9781003150398-27}, pages = {410 -- 436}, abstract = {There is a widespread impression that older workers are less productive than their younger colleagues. If this impression were true, population ageing would have negative effects on overall productivity as the share of older workers is increasing and would thus directly reduce economic growth. A lack of economic growth would amplify the economic strains on ageing societies already exerted by increasing pension, healthcare, and long-term care expenditures. This chapter discusses many methodological challenges that have plagued the measurement of the link between age and productivity. It reviews micro- and macroeconomic studies and juxtaposes them with the literature on the relationship between population ageing and aggregate productivity. The methodologically most convincing studies on individual productivity in standard jobs find an initial increase in productivity, probably a learning effect, but then productivity remains flat until retirement. These micro-level studies measure productivity in a given technological environment and therefore ignore the contribution to productivity from improving this environment. This is where macro studies come into play, which suggest a negative influence of population ageing on total factor productivity. While the microeconomic and the macroeconomic evidence appear to contradict each other, they do not because they measure different relationships that are not linked through simple aggregation. This result has important implications for methodology and public policy.}, subject = {Bev{\"o}lkerung}, language = {en} } @incollection{BoerschSupanDuezguenWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and D{\"u}zg{\"u}n, Ismail and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Labor Productivity in an Aging Society}, series = {Frontiers in Pension Finance}, booktitle = {Frontiers in Pension Finance}, editor = {Broeders, Dirk and Eijffinger, Sylvester C.W. and Houben, Aerdt}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {Cheltenham}, doi = {10.4337/9781847209924.00013}, pages = {83 -- 98}, abstract = {How to deliver adequate pension benefits at reasonable costs is a huge challenge confronting our ageing societies. This book delivers a comprehensive overview of the latest insights into pension finance, pension system design, pension governance and risk based supervision. It combines state-of-the-art analyses with innovative policy proposals to increase the efficiency and resilience of pension systems and to advance these systems' contribution to global financial stability. Renowned pension experts offer cutting-edge guidance for future decision making and the development of best practices. This exciting exploration of the frontiers in pension finance highlights key aspects of securing long term retirement provisions.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BoerschSupanDuezguenWeiss, author = {B{\"o}rsch-Supan, Axel and D{\"u}zg{\"u}n, Ismail and Weiss, Matthias}, title = {Labour Productivity in an Aging Society}, series = {Frontiers in pension finance}, booktitle = {Frontiers in pension finance}, editor = {Broeders, Dirk and Eijffinger, Sylvester C.W. and Houben, Aerdt}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {Cheltenham; Northampton, Mass}, isbn = {9781847209924}, doi = {10.4337/9781847209924.00013}, pages = {83 -- 98}, language = {en} } @misc{WeberDendorferSuessetal., author = {Weber, Karsten and Dendorfer, Sebastian and S{\"u}ß, Franz and Kubowitsch, Simone and Schratzenstaller, Thomas and Haug, Sonja and Mohr, Christa and Kiesl, Hans and Drechsler, J{\"o}rg and Westner, Markus and Kobus, J{\"o}rn and Schubert, Martin J. W. and Zenger, Stefan and Pietsch, Alexander and Weiß, Josef and Hinterseer, Sebastian and Schieck, Roland and Scherzinger, Stefanie and Klettke, Meike and Ringlstetter, Andreas and St{\"o}rl, Uta and Bissyand{\´e}, Tegawend{\´e} F. and Seeburger, Achim and Schindler, Timo and Ramsauer, Ralf and Kiszka, Jan and K{\"o}lbl, Andreas and Lohmann, Daniel and Mauerer, Wolfgang and Maier, Johannes and Scorna, Ulrike and Palm, Christoph and Soska, Alexander and Mottok, J{\"u}rgen and Ellermeier, Andreas and V{\"o}gele, Daniel and Hierl, Stefan and Briem, Ulrich and Buschmann, Knut and Ehrlich, Ingo and Pongratz, Christian and Pielmeier, Benjamin and Tyroller, Quirin and Monkman, Gareth J. and Gut, Franz and Roth, Carina and Hausler, Peter and Bierl, Rudolf and Prommesberger, Christian and Ławrowski, Robert Damian and Langer, Christoph and Schreiner, Rupert and Huang, Yifeng and She, Juncong and Ottl, Andreas and Rieger, Walter and Kraml, Agnes and Poxleitner, Thomas and Hofer, Simon and Heisterkamp, Benjamin and Lerch, Maximilian and Sammer, Nike and Golde, Olivia and Wellnitz, Felix and Schmid, Sandra and Muntschick, Claudia and Kusterle, Wolfgang and Paric, Ivan and Br{\"u}ckl, Oliver and Haslbeck, Matthias and Schmidt, Ottfried and Schwanzer, Peter and Rabl, Hans-Peter and Sterner, Michael and Bauer, Franz and Steinmann, Sven and Eckert, Fabian and Hofrichter, Andreas}, title = {Forschungsbericht 2017}, editor = {Baier, Wolfgang}, address = {Regensburg}, organization = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg}, isbn = {978-3-9818209-3-5}, doi = {10.35096/othr/pub-1383}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-13835}, subject = {Forschung}, language = {de} }