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Do mixed teams of old and experienced and young and restless employees foster companies innovativeness?
  • Andrea Hammermann / Matthias Niendorf / Jörg Schmidt at IAB Discussion Paper ·
  • External Publications ·
  • 7 March 2019

Age Diversity and Innovation: Do mixed teams of old and experienced and young and restless employees foster companies innovativeness?

In Germany, the labour force is ageing rapidly. At the same time, age heterogeneity within companies is rising. The literature on diversity argues that heterogeneity can have a positive as well as a detrimental effect on team outputs.
The EU’s Strategy for Promoting Gender Equality between Women and Men (2016–2019)
  • Jörg Schmidt ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 26 September 2018

The EU’s Strategy for Promoting Gender Equality between Women and Men

This paper examines possible options for refining the indicators in three economic related policy areas of the EU’s strategy for gender equality between men and women (2016–2019). The objectives and measures of the EU strategy are not analyzed, but modifications and extensions of the empirical reporting are proposed.
Is Digitalization Placing New Demands on Leadership and Performance Management?
  • Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes ·
  • IW-Trends No. 4 ·
  • 22 January 2018

Is Digitalization Placing New Demands on Leadership and Performance Management?

Digital transformation has the potential to promote change in the HR policy areas of leadership and performance management. This is suggested by empirical findings based on the IW Human Resources Panel 2017 and the European Working Conditions Survey 2015.
Job Satisfaction in Europe
  • Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes ·
  • Interactive Graphic ·
  • 5 September 2017

Quality of Work: Job Satisfaction in Europe

The interactive graphic shows the share of participants of the survey who are satisfied with their work in percent and how it changes when the employees are dissatisfied with certain working conditions.
Mobile Working in Germany and Europe
  • Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes ·
  • IW-Trends No. 5 ·
  • 1 September 2017

An Evaluation Based on the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey: Mobile Working in Germany and Europe

More than half of Germany’s total workforce are at least occasionally deployed away from their employer’s premises.
employees are satisfied
  • Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes ·
  • Press Release No. 39 ·
  • 21 August 2017

Quality of work: employees are satisfied

According to a recent study of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW), the majority of employees in the EU are satisfied with their job.
Always Down? Empirical Findings on Wage and Income Mobility in Germany
  • Holger Schäfer / Jörg Schmidt ·
  • IW-Trends No. 99 ·
  • 20 March 2017

Wage and Income Mobility in Germany

The debate on distributive justice in Germany can become very heated. When this happens, the trigger is usually inequality indicators, which generally reflect only a temporary situation.
Findings based on the 2016 Monitor of Corporate Family Friendliness
  • Andrea Hammermann / Oliver Stettes ·
  • IW-Trends No. 4 ·
  • 24 November 2016

Family-Friendly Working Environments in the Age of Digitalization

According to the latest survey results from the 2016 Monitor of Corporate Family Friendliness, companies and employees are equally convinced that digitalization has the potential to improve the reconciliation of work and family life. Almost half of all extensively digitalized enterprises, those qualifying for what is coming to be known as Industry 4.0, have a distinctively family-friendly corporate culture.
Cultural Diversity as a Success Factor? Empirical Results Based on the IAB’s Linked-Employer-Employee-Data Set
  • Andrea Hammermann / Matthias Niendorf / Jörg Schmidt ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 6 October 2016

Cultural Diversity as a Success Factor? Empirical Results Based on the IAB’s Linked-Employer-Employee-Data Set

The influence on a company’s success of cultural diversity within its workforce depends on the wider context. Cultural variety in itself is neither solely beneficial nor detrimental. This is the result of an empirical analysis of Linked-Employer Employee data for Germany about the interaction between culturally diverse groups in firms and its (possible) influence on gross value added.
A web tool-based equal gender pay analysis for a competitive Europe
  • Andrea Hammermann / Jörg Schmidt / Oliver Stettes ·
  • IW-Report No. 26 ·
  • 15 July 2016

A web tool-based equal gender pay analysis for a competitive Europe

The equal pacE web tool is an interactive software application that informs the user about the extent of gender pay gaps in his or her organisation. In this IW-Report the researches present the tool's features and give an overview about the lessons learned from using the tool.
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