Skill-Biased Management: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms
利用19个国家大学与区域劳动力市场的新数据，研究发现离大学越远的制造业企业雇佣的熟练工人越少、管理水平越差，表明管理实践与技能存在互补关系。
Abstract This article investigates the link between management practices and workforce skills in manufacturing firms, exploiting geographical variation in the supply of human capital. Skills measures are constructed using newly compiled data on universities and regional labour markets across 19 countries. Consistent with management practices being complementary with skills, we show that firms further away from universities employ fewer skilled workers and are worse managed, even after controlling for a rich set of observables and fixed effects. Analysis using regional skill premia suggests that variation in the price of skill drives these relationships.