Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-overs in Firms

René Böheim, Gerard Horvath and Karin Mayr-Dorn

No 8463, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co-workers. In equilibrium, workers' wages depend on the production structure of firms, own group size, and aggregate workforce composition in the firm. We estimate the wage effects of workforce diversity and own group size by birthplace and the implied production structure in Austrian firms using a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set. In our data, we identify a positive effect of workforce diversity and a negative effect of own group size on wages, which suggest that workers of different birthplaces are complements in production on average.

Keywords: workforce composition; productivity spill-overs; worker group size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D22 F22 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-09
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Working Paper: Birthplace diversity and productivity spill-overs in firms (2014)
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