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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Chiara Lacava - Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Why Are Some Regions So Much More Productive than Others? \nAbstract:\n Dif
 ferentials in aggregate labor productivity across regions could be due to d
 ifferences (1) in workers’ skills (2) in firms’ technologies (3) in how eff
 iciently skills and technologies are matched and (4) in institutional facto
 rs specific to each region. I introduce a framework to separately identify 
 each determinant using matched employer-employee data. I estimate skills by
  comparing the wages of each worker with co-workers in the same firm and in
  the same region; technologies by comparing the productivity of firms with 
 same workforce’s skills and in the same region. I estimate positive complem
 entarities between skill and technology by measuring how workers and firms 
 jointly contribute to productivity in the same region through a model of th
 e aggregate production function. Finally, I disentangle region-specific fac
 tors from technologies since some firms have plants in more than one region
 . In an application to the Italian regions, I find that differences in firm
 s’ technologies and in region-specific factors account respectively for 60%
  and 35% of the large productivity differentials. In contrast, no contribut
 ion is due to differences in the distribution of skills, since they are clo
 se to zero and do not change with the migration of workers. Also, under opt
 imal assignment of workers productivity differences do not increase, but pr
 oductivity level rises by around 20%.\n
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