Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282771 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16644
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We quantify firm heterogeneity in skill returns and present direct evidence of worker–firm complementarities. Within a model of firms' demand for cognitive and noncognitive attributes we show that identification depends on the availability of skill measures. Linking administrative data to test scores we document worker sorting and convex earnings–skill relationships. We find that: (1) Both skills' returns vary substantially across employers and correlate weakly within-firm. (2) Workers with large endowments of a skill populate firms with higher returns to it. Sorting intensifies with the cross-sectional dispersion of returns. (3) Complementarities and sorting significantly influence the earnings distribution.
Subjects: 
firm heterogeneity
skill return
sorting
earnings distribution
JEL: 
D3
J23
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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