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Title: Coworker Complementarity

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: How important is working with people who complement one’s skills? Using administrative data that record which of 491 educational tracks each worker in Sweden absolved, I quantify the educational fit among coworkers along two dimensions: coworker match and coworker substitutability. Complementary coworkers raise wages with a comparable factor as does a college degree, whereas working with close substitutes is associated with wage penalties. Moreover, this coworker fit does not only account for large portions of the urban and large-plant wage premiums, but the returns to own schooling and the urban wage premium are almost completely contingent on finding complementary coworkers.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2929339

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Authors: Neffke, Frank

Series Title: SWPS

Publication Number: 2017-05

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Pages: 68

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

Countries: United States