We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the … total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of profit … counties. This indicates that the ultimate effect on profits is smaller than the direct increase in productivity …

that contribute to productivity in cities. I use college majors to proxy for skill types among workers with a Bachelor … generate sizeable spillovers for workers in other fields. In contrast, within-field and across-field spillovers for workers … proximity to college-educated workers enhances productivity, these findings suggest that not all college educated workers are …

wages of workers present from startup increase after former MNE workers join domestic firms. Likewise, there is no …

productivity premium is not entirely offset by an increase in wages. Finally, we conclude that the main channels for …In the past decades, intangibles assets have become an important source of productivity and economic growth in … the impact of intangible investments on productivity growth in frontier countries, there is not much evidence for the …

Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the … the case because social interaction among co-workers can lead to productivity spillover through knowledge spillover or … peer pressure. The available empirical evidence suggests that, due to such peer effects, co-worker productivity positively …

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be …

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish … firms, while the workers who bring spillovers receive at most 6% of it as the wage premium. The large share retained by the …

We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level … technological lag with respect to the US, to which most evidence supporting local human capital spillovers refers. Our estimates … wages. This evidence is robust to many variants of the econometric specification and to addressing potential endogeneity …

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …