We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that … professionals with experience from international firms and enterprise groups contribute the most to total factor productivity …

We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using … longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in …