TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abowd,John M.
AU  - Kramarz,Francis
AU  - Moreau,Antoine
TI  - Product Quality and Worker Quality
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5077
PY  - 1995
Y2  - April 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5077
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5077.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John M. Abowd
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
261 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607/255-8024
Fax: 866/873-9078
E-Mail: John.Abowd@cornell.edu

Francis Kramarz
CREST-INSEE
15 blvd Gabriel Peri
Malakoff CEDEX, 92245
FRANCE
E-Mail: kramarz@ensae.fr
AB  - We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality.  Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative to its product group and the level of the product price relative to this group.  Our worker quality measures are the firm's average person effect and personal characteristics effect from individual wage rates.  We find a very weak, generally positive, relation between worker quality and product quality using detailed firm-level data from the French Producer Price Index surveys.
ER  -