Are personnel measures effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Labour Economics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-93

  Göbel, Christian ^a,b   Zwick, Thomas ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Labour Studies (HdBA)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age productivity profile; Ageing workforce; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875809965     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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