Role of proficient skill on firm productivity and its spillovers through interfirm trade

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K18552
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economics, Business Administration, and related fields
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAJIMA KENTARO 一橋大学, 大学院経営管理研究科, 准教授 (60507698)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 井上 寛康 兵庫県立大学, シミュレーション学研究科, 准教授 (60418499) ; 中嶋 亮 慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 教授 (70431658)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-06-30 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 熟練技能 / 知識波及 / 生産性 / 技能継承

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project empirically examines the role of proficient skills and expertise on productivity in a firm, as well as their inheritance and transmission. By quantifying the proficient skills in a firm based on the information of workers who are commended for proficient skill award by governments, and by exploiting retirement age and retirement events of skilled workers due to other exogenous reasons as variation of proficient skills in a firm, we estimate the impact of proficient skill on firm productivity. We construct a database of proficient skilled worker and preliminary results show that proficient skill in a firm has positive impact on the firm productivity.

Free Research Field

空間経済学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

生産性上昇についてその決定要因を探ることは学術的・政策的に重要な課題である。本研究課題は、企業における技能および専門知が生産性に与える役割、および、技能および専門知の継承・伝達について実証的に検証を行った。国や各種団体が主催する熟練技能者表彰制度を利用することで、企業内熟練技能を定量化し、さらに熟練技能者の退職によって生じる企業内熟練技能の変動を用いることでその効果を推定した。