Experience, innovation and productivity: Empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

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We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. A high share of temporary - thus un-experienced - workers is associated to low innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits of old managerial age cancel out for non-innovative firms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3123

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Personnel Economics: Labor Management ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
• Subject: firm productivity ; innovation ; managerial experience ; temporary jobs ; Berufserfahrung ; Arbeitskräfte ; Führungskräfte ; Innovation ; Produktivität ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Daveri, Francesco ; Parisi, Maria Laura
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/38962
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET