Coworker Complementarity

No 79, CID Working Papers from Center for International Development at Harvard University

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 fitt 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.

Keywords: complementarity; substitutability; job match; coworkers; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-01
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