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Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

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  • Thomas Bolli
  • Filippo Pusterla

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This article uses Swiss firm‐level panel data to show that complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We consider workers with four different types of education: no post‐secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET), tertiary professional education, and tertiary academic education. To account for possible endogeneity, we exploit within‐firm variation and employ a structural estimation technique that uses intermediate inputs as a proxy for unobserved productivity shocks. Our results suggest that workers with an upper secondary VET education are complementary to workers with a tertiary academic education, while workers with no post‐secondary education are complementary to workers with a tertiary professional education. Altogether, our findings highlight the importance of vertical and horizontal education diversity within firms.

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  • Thomas Bolli & Filippo Pusterla, 2023. "Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 37(4), pages 554-591, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:labour:v:37:y:2023:i:4:p:554-591
    DOI: 10.1111/labr.12256
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