Arbeitspapier
Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies
For the first time data of German ICT and knowledge intensive service providers are used to analyze the relation between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be accompanied by appropriate workplace organization. A part of the firms which enhanced teamwork or flattened their hierarchies are actually more likely to adopt new technologies and software when they have a higher share of older employees whereas they are less likely to introduce new technologies if they have a higher share of younger employees.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 07-050
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
- Subject
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age structure of the workforce
adoption of new technologies
ICT intensive services
Computergestütztes Verfahren
Innovationsdiffusion
Arbeitskräfte
Lebensalter
Ältere Arbeitskräfte
Organisationsstruktur
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Meyer, Jenny
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
Data provider
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Meyer, Jenny
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2007