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Big data at work: Age and labor productivity in the service sector

  • 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.

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Author:Axel Börsch-Supan, Christian Hunkler, Matthias WeissORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100319
Parent Title (German):The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Publisher:Elsevier
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Year of first Publication:2021
Release Date:2021/10/06
Tag:Age-productivity profiles; Demographic change; Service industry
Volume:19
Article Number:100319
Institutes:Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
research focus:Produktion und Systeme
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG