Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - In: Journal of Labor Economics 26 (2008) 2, pp. 247-285
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...