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| Titre : | Gender and age diversity of the workforce. Does it matter for firms’ performance? |
| Auteurs : | Laetitia Challe ; Fabrice Gilles ; Yannick L'Horty ; Ferhat Mihoubi |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | Marne-la-Vallée : Théorie et Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (TEPP), 2026 |
| Collection : | Working Papers, num. 2026-6 |
| Format : | 94 p |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ GENRE ; FEMME ; AGE ; JEUNE ; TRAVAILLEUR AGE ; PERFORMANCE ; PRODUCTIVITE DU TRAVAIL ; ECONOMETRIE ; FRANCE ; DADS - DECLARATION ANNUELLE DE DONNEES SOCIALESOrganisme Cité FARE - Fichier Approché des Résultats d’Esane |
| Résumé : | We explore the link between the firm’s workforce composition in terms of female, young and senior workers and its performance. Despite extensive research, the impact of age and gender workforce diversity on firms’ growth and performance remains theoretically and empirically inconclusive. We consider two types of approaches. We question the complementarity of considered working populations (female / male workers; young and older workers; senior and younger workers) estimating elasticity of substitutions in the framework of CES production functions. Then, we evaluate the effects of diversity in terms of those three working populations on firm labor productivity using a non-linear approach, using an original instrumental variable identification strategy to cope with endogeneity of diversity. Our econometric estimates, based on administrative data from French companies (2009-2015), highlight several results. First, female and male workers are at least partly complements; the same holds for young workers and other workers, and to a lesser extent between senior workers and other workers. Second, increasing diversity in terms of female, young or old workers is associated to greater productivity and generates often productivity gains; in particular, productivity gains decrease as the share of female or young workers is close to the diversity situation, confirming inverse U-shaped relation between productivity and the share of the given employed population. Third, this positive relation between female and young workers diversity and productivity is mainly attributable only to some industries, where the share of given working population is below or above the diversity situation. Consequently, this article seems to indicate robust findings to inspire public policy actions in favor of diversity in terms of female, young or old workers. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://www.tepp.eu/images/pdf/working-paper-2026/genderandagediversityworkforcefirmsperformance.pdf |
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