Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Frank Neffke
Author-Email: frank_neffke@hks.harvard.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Center for International Development at Harvard University
Author-Person: pne139
Title: Coworker Complementarity
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 fitt 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.
Creation-Date: 2017-01
Keywords: complementarity, substitutability, job match, coworkers, skills
Number: 92
Handle: RePEc:glh:wpfacu:92
File-Url: http://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/files/growthlab/files/rfwp79_neffke.pdf
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