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Skill dispersion and firm productivity: an analysis with employer-employee matched data Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics S. Iranzo
Fabiano Schivardi ()
E. Tosetti
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We study the relation between workers’ skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker’s effect obtained as a latent variable from a wage equation. Estimates of a generalized CES production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm’s productivity is positively related to skill dispersion within occupational status groups (production and non-production workers) and negatively related to skill dispersion between these groups. Consistently, the variance decomposition shows that most of the overall skill dispersion is within and not between firms. We find no change over time in the share of each component, in contrast with some evidence from other countries, based on less comprehensive data.
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Keywords: Matched data ; Skill distribution ; Productivity ; Segregation. ; Other versions of this item:
Article Paper Susanna Iranzo & Fabiano Schivardi & Elisa Tosetti, 2006.
"Skill dispersion and firm productivity; an analysis with employer-employee matched data ,"
Temi di discussione (Economic working papers)
577, Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department.
[Downloadable!] Iranzo, Susana & Schivardi, Fabiano & Tosetti, Elisa, 2006.
"Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data ,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
5539, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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