Corpus ID: 15161675

Aggregate Evidence on the Link Between Age Structure and Productivity

@inproceedings{Feyrer2016AggregateEO,
  title={Aggregate Evidence on the Link Between Age Structure and Productivity},
  author={James D. Feyrer},
  year={2016}
}

James D. Feyrer

Published 2016

Economics

This chapter examines the relationship between the age structure of the work force and aggregate productivity. It is well known from the labor literature that there is a robust relationship between years of experience and income. If workers are paid their marginal product then this suggests a relationship between worker productivity and age. In the aggregate, therefore, we should expect changes in the age structure of a population to be correlated with changes in productivity. Feyrer (2007… CONTINUE READING

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