Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing

By J. van Ours, Lenny Stoeldraijer. 2011

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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel dataset from Dutch manufacturing covering the period 2000–2005. We find little evidence of an age related pay-productivity gap.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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• Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses (2010, unknown): “Structural interpretation of the productivity equation is possible under the assumption that workers of different age groups are substitutes for each other, although their marginal productivity is allowed to differ (for details, see van Ours and Stoeldraijer 2011 ).”