@techreport{Galindo-Rueda2005Skills,
abstract = {We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking
the Annual Business Inquiry and Employer Skills Survey for England. We first examine the
effect of workplace skills and other characteristics such as part-time status and gender on
both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity-implied
returns to worker characteristics compare with wage-implied returns, therefore providing
information on how rents are distributed between employers and employees. We find that
firms with a higher share of college-educated, full-time and male workers also tend to be
more productive, with considerable variations across sectors. The only robust difference in
implied returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for
the observed productivity differences. Second, we study the effect of local skills on
productivity controlling for skills at the firm. We find a positive and robust association, which
is consistent with positive human capital externalities.},
author = {Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Jonathan Haskel},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J7; J2; J3; 330; productivity; wages; skills; workforce characteristics; spillovers},
language = {eng},
number = {1542},
title = {Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from the Matched ABI/Employer Skills Survey},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21318},
year = {2005}
}
