TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pfeifer, Christian
AU  - Wagner, Joachim
        TI  - Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
        PY  - 2012/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7050
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7050
        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  - R&D
KW  - firm performance
KW  - gender
KW  - Germany
KW  - ageing
KW  - innovation
        ER  -