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Table 2 Workforce structure and flows by dominance and growth regime

From: Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm levelDen Weizen von der Spreu trennen – Altersbezogene Personalpolitik und Innovationen auf der Betriebsebene

 

All total

Innovation sample

Dominance

ΔE≥0

ΔE<0

Total

Growth

D+

D

D+

D

D+

D

ΔE≥0

ΔE<0

Target groups among workforce (%)

 Young

31.9

31.5

33.3

29.4

31.4

31.5

33.0

33.7

29.6

29.2

 Old

23.4

22.4

20.9

24.0

22.1

22.7

20.5

21.3

23.9

24.2

Target groups among worker inflows and outflows (%)

 Young among inflow

51.8

55.1

52.8

57.8

57.2

52.9

55.9

49.4

58.7

56.8

 Older among outflow

24.7

25.0

21.6

28.5

26.1

23.8

22.1

21.1

30.4

26.6

Other workforce flow indicators

 Outflow rate (per 100 workers)

7.9

7.9

8.7

7.0

6.7

9.0

6.9

10.6

6.6

7.3

 Inflow rate (per 100 workers)

7.9

7.5

10.8

3.8

6.4

8.6

8.7

13.6

3.8

3.8

 Age-heterogeneity (years)

9.3

10.0

10.0

10.1

9.9

10.2

9.6

10.3

10.1

10.1

Staffing patterns (on average, by group)

 Rejuvenating—inflow of younger (% yes)

75.1

79.0

77.0

81.3

82.3

75.4

84.1

69.0

80.2

82.4

N

10036

472

248

224

248

224

132

116

116

108

 Rejuvenating—outflow of older (% yes)

42.2

42.8

33.8

52.2

45.2

40.2

36.8

30.4

54.3

50.0

N

9658

470

240

230

241

229

125

115

116

114

 Churning level (rate)

0.46

0.55

0.56

0.54

0.55

0.55

0.58

0.54

0.52

0.56

N

11905

531

288

251

271

260

144

136

127

124

 Change in age-heterogeneity (%)

2.2

+3.8

+8.9

−1.7

+5.6

+1.9

+11.8

+5.9

−1.3

−2.1

N

14665

572

295

277

289

283

153

142

136

141

  1. Notes: Pooled results for the years 1998/1999 and 2001/2002. N=15,891 for the full sample and N=585 for the innovation sample. Note that the variation in case numbers per strategy results from the fact that the staffing patterns draw upon workforce flows that cannot be computed in many cases, if, for example, an establishment is not observed in the respective precedent periods. Source: Elaborated for this study based on LIAB data