Citation:
Neffke, F., 2017. Coworker complementarity. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/26fa468p
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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 fit 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.
CID Research Fellow & Graduate Student Working Paper : 79
Keywords: complementarity, substitutability, job match, coworkers, skills