This paper explores, both theoretically and empirically, how firing costs affect worker productivity and turnover. We develop a model in which workers are essential to knowledge transfer between firms and worker effort is firm-specific in the sense that a worker can be fired before reaping the...

It is well known that the movement of people between organizations and regions results in knowledge diffusion. In this paper, we highlight the drivers of mobility of researchers between firms in the electronics industry. The research in this industry is characterized by being patent-intensive...