We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique data set of Italian manufacturing firms with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect from a wage equation. We find that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill dispersion within occupational status groups (production and nonproduction workers) and negatively related to skill dispersion between these groups. Con-© 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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Iranzo, S., Schivardi, F., & Tosetti, E. (2008). Skill dispersion and firm productivity: An analysis with employer-employee matched data. Journal of Labor Economics, 26(2), 247–285. https://doi.org/10.1086/587091
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