TY - JOUR

T1 - Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2014/9/1

Y1 - 2014/9/1

N2 - This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm’s workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be more active in R&D

AB - This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm’s workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be more active in R&D

KW - Gender and Diversity

KW - Ageing

KW - Firm performance

KW - Gender

KW - Germany

KW - Innovation

KW - R&D

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976416898&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s12651-013-0137-y

DO - 10.1007/s12651-013-0137-y

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 47

SP - 223

EP - 231

JO - Journal for Labour Market Research

JF - Journal for Labour Market Research

SN - 1614-3485

IS - 3

ER -