Long-Term Attachments and Long-Run Firm Rates of Return

Peter Orazem, Marvin Bouillon and B. Michael Doran

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Abstract: Long-term attachments between workers and firms are common. Numerous studies have examined worker returns to tenure, but little is known of firm returns to firm-worker matches. Yet, these attachments represent a human capital asset quasi-held by the firm which is not captured by traditional accounting measures of firm assets. Firms with large quasi-holdings of human capital will have higher measured return on assets, other things equal. Analysis of data on 250 large manufacturing firms supports the view that firms profit from long-term attachments with their workers. Consequently, unmeasured human capital assets contribute to the explanation of persistence in measured long-run excess profits across firms.

Date: 2004-10-01
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Published in Southern Economic Journal, October 2004, vol. 71 no. 2, pp. 314-333

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