Skill complementarity in production technology: New empirical evidence and implications

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作者：
Stoyanov, Andrey [3 ]
Zubanov, Nick [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Konstanz, Constance, Germany
[2] HSE Univ St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia
[3] York Univ, Toronto, ON, Canada
来源：
GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2022年 / 23卷 / 02期
关键词：
skill dispersion; complementarity; production technology; firm productivity; WAGE DISPERSION; FIRM PRODUCTIVITY; DIVERSITY; PERFORMANCE; TEAM;
D O I：
10.1515/ger-2020-0102
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
Danish manufacturing firm data reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill (= wage) dispersion, and 2) within-firm skill dispersion positively correlates with firm productivity in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns reflect technological differences between industries: firms in the "skill complementarity" industries profit from hiring similarly able workers, while the "skill substitutability" firms thrive on skill differences. Our study produces a robust, data-driven and theoretically validated classification of industries into the complementarity and substitutability groups, unveils hitherto unnoticed technological heterogeneity between industries within the same economy, and illustrates its importance through simulations.
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