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Publication date: 8 June 2012

Alessandra Cataldi, Stephan Kampelmann and François Rycx

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the relationship between workforce age, wage and productivity at the firm level.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the relationship between workforce age, wage and productivity at the firm level.

Design/methodology/approach

Panel data techniques are applied to Belgian data on private sector workers and firms during 1999‐2006.

Findings

Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm heterogeneity, endogeneity and state dependence) suggest that older workers are significantly less productive than prime age and young workers. In contrast, the productivity of middle‐aged workers is not found to be significantly different compared to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly with workers’ age. Overall, this leads to the conclusion that young (older) workers appear to be “underpaid” (“overpaid”).

Originality/value

These findings contribute to the growing literature on how the workforce age structure affects productivity and wages.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 8 June 2012

Guido Citoni, Benoît Mahy and François Rycx

The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health.

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe the main findings of the papers appearing in this special issue.

Findings

This issue provides new evidence regarding the impact of work organization (essentially defined in terms of payment methods, teamwork, workforce age structure and labour contracts) on performance (measured through employment, productivity and sickness absenteeism indicators). It also sheds more light on the determinants of workers’ health by gender, with particular attention to working conditions and mobbing.

Originality/value

The papers collected in this special issue provide some fine examples of recent work at the crossroads of health and personnel economics.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 28 May 2021

Zhenning Zhu, Lingcheng Kong, Gulizhaer Aisaiti, Mingzhen Song and Zefeng Mi

In the hybrid electricity market consisting of renewable and conventional energy, the generation output of renewable power is uncertain because of its intermittency, and the power…

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Purpose

In the hybrid electricity market consisting of renewable and conventional energy, the generation output of renewable power is uncertain because of its intermittency, and the power market demand is also fluctuant. Meanwhile, there is fierce competition among power producers in the power supply market and retailers in the demand market after deregulation, which increases the difficulty of renewable energy power grid-connection. To promote grid-connection of renewable energy power in the hybrid electricity market, the authors construct different contract decision-making models in the “many-to-many” hybrid power supply chain to explore the pricing strategy of renewable energy power grid-connecting.

Design/methodology/approach

Considering the dual-uncertainty of renewable energy power output and electricity market demand, the authors construct different decision-making models of wholesale price contract and revenue-sharing contract to compare and optimize grid-connecting pricing, respectively, to maximize the profits of different participants in the hybrid power supply chain. Besides, the authors set different parameters in the models to explore the influence of competition intensity, government subsidies, etc. on power pricing. Then, a numerical simulation is carried out, they verify the existence of the equilibrium solutions satisfying the supply chain coordination, compare the differences of pricing contracts and further analyze the variation characteristics of optimal contract parameters and their interaction relations.

Findings

Revenue-sharing contract can increase the quantity of green power grid-connection and realize benefits Pareto improvement of all parties in hybrid power supply chain. The competition intensity both of power supply and demand market will have an impact on the sharing ratio, and the increase of competition intensity results in a reduction of power supply chain coordination pressure. The power contract price, spot price and selling price have all been reduced with the increase of the sharing ratio, and the price of renewable power is more sensitive to the ratio change. The sharing ratio shows a downward trend with the increase of government green power subsidies.

Originality/value

On the basis of expanding the definition of hybrid power market and the theory of newsvendor model, considering the dual-uncertainty of green power generation output and electricity market demand, this paper builds and compares different contract decision-making models to study the grid-connection pricing strategy of renewable energy power. And as an extension of supply chain structure types and management, the authors build a “many-to-many” power supply chain structure model and analyze the impact of competition intensity among power enterprises and the government subsidy on the power grid-connecting pricing.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 121 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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