Do social interactions in the workplace lead to productivity spillover among co-workers?
In: IZA world of labor: evidence-based policy making
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In: IZA world of labor: evidence-based policy making
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In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 2, S. 425-456
ISSN: 1944-7981
Existing evidence on peer effects in the productivity of coworkers stems from either laboratory experiments or real-world studies referring to a specific firm or occupation. In this paper, we aim at providing more generalizable results by investigating a large local labor market, with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy—which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages—circumvents the reflection problem and accounts for endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average over all occupations, and in the type of high-skilled occupations investigated in studies on knowledge spillover, we find only small peer effects in wages. In the type of low-skilled occupations analyzed in extant studies on social pressure, in contrast, we find larger peer effects, about one-half the size of those identified in similar studies on productivity. (JEL J24, J31, J41, M12, M54)
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In: Journal of labor research, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 205-225
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: Journal of political economy, Band 126, Heft 6, S. 2356-2409
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7162
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13050
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5987
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