Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel
An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers previously in R&D to one's non-R&D activities, however, boosts both productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied and implemented without much additional R&D effort.
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2008
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Authors: | Maliranta, Mika ; Mohnen, Pierre ; Rouvinen, Petri |
Institutions: | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) |
Subject: | Labor Mobility | R&D Spillovers | Profitability | Linked Employer-Employee Data |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | The text is part of a series UNU-MERIT Working Papers Number 005 |
Classification: | D62 - Externalities ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; L25 - Firm Size and Performance ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives |
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