Human Capital Spillovers within the Workplace: Evidence for Great Britain
Human Capital Spillovers within the Workplace: Evidence for Great Britain
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工作场所的人力资本溢出：英国的证据
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2003
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P. Sloane
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H. Battu;C. Belfield;P. Sloane
在本文中，我们使用独特的匹配工人-工作场所数据集来估计同事教育对自己收入的影响。我们使用 1998 年 GB 工作场所员工关系调查得出的结果显示了显着的影响。平均工作场所教育的独立、显着的积极影响是显而易见的；在控制工作场所教育的情况下，受教育年限带来的个人收入溢价仅略有下降。这一结果表明，教育的社会回报是非常积极的——与每人比普通工人受教育程度高 1.2 年（1 个标准差）的同事一起工作，可以使自己的收入提高 11.1%。任何一位同事多接受一年的教育大约相当于自己多接受一年教育的 3.2%。我们还测试自己和同事教育水平之间的相互作用，以及当工人教育水平不同时的“技能不兼容性”。这种互动似乎是消极的：在同事教育水平已经很高的工作场所，自己的教育并不太受重视。没有证据表明工作场所工人教育水平的异质性会对自己的收入产生不利影响。这一结果与理论预测背道而驰，表明工人会参加锦标赛来争夺高薪工作。版权所有 2003 布莱克威尔出版有限公司
In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace data set to estimate the effect on own earnings of co-workers' education. Our results, using the 1998 GB Workplace Employee Relations Survey, show significant effects. An independent, significantly positive effect from average workplace education is evident; own earnings premia from years of education fall only slightly when controlling for workplace education. This result suggests that the social returns to education are strongly positive - working with colleagues who each had 1.2 years (1 standard deviation) of more education than the average worker, boosts own earnings by 11.1%. An additional year of any single co-worker's education is worth about 3.2% of an additional own year of education. We also test for interactions between own and co-worker education levels and for 'skills incompatibility' when worker education levels are heterogeneous. The interactions appear negative: own education is not much valued at workplaces where co-workers' education levels are already high. There is no evidence that workplace heterogeneity in worker education levels adversely affects own earnings. This result runs counter to theoretical predictions, and suggests that workers compete in tournaments for high-paying jobs. Copyright 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.