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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bolli, Thomas
• Pusterla, Filippo

Titel

Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

Ist Teil von

• Labour (Rome, Italy), 2023-12, Vol.37 (4), p.554-591

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article uses Swiss firm‐level panel data to show that complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We consider workers with four different types of education: no post‐secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET), tertiary professional education, and tertiary academic education. To account for possible endogeneity, we exploit within‐firm variation and employ a structural estimation technique that uses intermediate inputs as a proxy for unobserved productivity shocks. Our results suggest that workers with an upper secondary VET education are complementary to workers with a tertiary academic education, while workers with no post‐secondary education are complementary to workers with a tertiary professional education. Altogether, our findings highlight the importance of vertical and horizontal education diversity within firms.