Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns

Michael Johannes Böhm (), Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli ()
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Michael Johannes Böhm: TU Dortmund
Khalil Esmkhani: Simon Fraser University

No 16644, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We quantify firm heterogeneity in skill returns and present direct evidence of worker–firm complementarities. Within a model of firms' demand for cognitive and noncognitive attributes we show that identification depends on the availability of skill measures. Linking administrative data to test scores we document worker sorting and convex earnings–skill relationships. We find that: (1) Both skills' returns vary substantially across employers and correlate weakly within-firm. (2) Workers with large endowments of a skill populate firms with higher returns to it. Sorting intensifies with the cross-sectional dispersion of returns. (3) Complementarities and sorting significantly influence the earnings distribution.

Keywords: firm heterogeneity; skill return; sorting; earnings distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 J23 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 100 pages
Date: 2023-12
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Working Paper: Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns (2022)
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