@article {1476713,
	title = {The Value of Complementary Coworkers},
	journal = {Science Advances},
	volume = {5},
	number = {12},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {
	As individuals specialize in specific knowledge areas, a society{\textquoteright}s know-how becomes distributed across different workers. To use this distributed know-how, workers must be coordinated into teams that, collectively, can cover a wide range of expertise. This paper studies the interdependencies among co-workers that result from this process in a population-wide dataset covering educational specializations of millions of workers and their co-workers in Sweden over a 10-year period. The analysis shows that the value of what a person knows depends on whom that person works with. Whereas having co-workers with qualifications similar to one{\textquoteright}s own is costly, having co-workers with complementary qualifications is beneficial. This co-worker complementarity increases over a worker{\textquoteright}s career and offers a unifying framework to explain seemingly disparate observations, answering questions such as {\textquotedblleft}Why do returns to education differ so widely?{\textquotedblright} {\textquotedblleft}Why do workers earn higher wages in large establishments?{\textquotedblright} {\textquotedblleft}Why are wages so high in large cities?{\textquotedblright}



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},
	url = {https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaax3370},
	author = {Neffke, Frank}
}
