Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer‐Employee Matched Data
利用意大利制造业企业及其所有工人的匹配数据，研究发现企业内职业组内技能分散与生产率正相关，而组间技能分散与生产率负相关。
We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique data set of Italian manufacturing firms with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect from a wage equation. We find that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill dispersion within occupational status groups (production and nonproduction workers) and negatively related to skill dispersion between these groups. Con-© 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.