Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265815 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15594
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical literature on differences in production technologies across businesses increasingly emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the establishment-level by combining establishment-level data on occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) with a restricted-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first step toward this objective by exploring the conceptual, specification, and measurement issues to be confronted. We provide suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We find that within-industry productivity dispersion is strongly positively related to within-industry task/skill dispersion.
Subjects: 
manufacturing
tasks
skills
productivity
JEL: 
D24
J24
J31
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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