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Title: The innovation premium to soft skills in low-skilled occuptions

Author(s): Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell and Rachel Griffith

Publication Date: November 2019

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Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to analyze the wage premium to working in an innovative firm. We find that firms that are more R&D intensive pay higher wages on average, and this is particularly true for workers in some low-skilled occupations. We propose a model in which a firm's innovativeness is reflected in the degree of complementarity between workers in low-skill and high-skilled occupations, and in which non-verifiable soft skills are an important determinant of the wages of workers in low-skilled occupations. The model yields additional predictions on training, tenure and outsourcing which we also find support for in data.

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Aghion, P, Bergeaud, A, Blundell, R and Griffith, R. 2019. 'The innovation premium to soft skills in low-skilled occuptions'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14102