Skill complementarity in production technology: New empirical evidence and implications.

Autor/inn/en	Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Skill complementarity in production technology: New empirical evidence and implications. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Komplementarität der Qualifikationen in der Produktionstechnik: Neue empirische Daten und deren Implikationen.
Quelle	Bonn (2019), 32 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 12433
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	2365-9793
Schlagwörter	Produktionstechnik; Lohnstruktur; Produktivität; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Arbeitsproduktivität; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Heterogenität; Monostruktur; Dänemark
Abstract	"Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns are a manifestation of technological differences across industries: firms in the 'skill complementarity' industries profit from hiring workers of similar skill level, whereas firms in the 'skill substitutability' industries benefit from hiring workers of different skill levels. An empirical method we devise produces a robust classification of industries into the distinct complementarity and substitutability groups. Our study unveils hitherto unnoticed technological heterogeneity between industries within the same economy, and demonstrates its importance. Specifically, we show through simulations on a simple general equilibrium model that failing to take technological heterogeneity into account results in large prediction errors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/1