Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers

Research on Monday Seminar
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Speaker

Thomas Cornelissen

Date
Monday 20 Mar 2023, 11:30 - 12:30
Type
Seminar
Room
M3-03
Building
Van der Goot Building
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Exposure to better peers at work may improve career prospects because of knowledge spillovers, but it can also harm career prospects if workers compete for career opportunities.

With Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

German labor market

Our identification strategy, based on a unique feature of the German labor market, allows us to disentangle these two effects. Focusing on young untrained workers and their exposure to high-quality colleagues in their first year in the labor market, we find strong evidence for persistent knowledge spillover effects, specifically so in occupations with high skill content and task complexity.

We detect counteracting competition effects of similar magnitude such that the overall impact of exposure to better colleagues on worker careers is close to zero.

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