Firm-level social returns to education |
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Authors: | Pedro S. Martins Jim Y. Jin |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK;(2) IZA, Bonn, Germany;(3) CEG-IST, Lisbon, Portugal;(4) School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, UK |
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Abstract: | Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? We examine this question first by introducing a model of learning, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers, and then by examining detailed matched employer–employee panel data from Portugal. We find evidence of large firm-level social returns (between 14% and 23%), much larger than standard estimates of private returns, and of significant returns accruing to less educated workers but not to their more educated colleagues. |
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