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We analyze an economy with two main features: labor mobility goes together with knowledge transfer and firm productivity increases with the exchange of ideas. Each firm develops some specific knowledge that will be transmitted to the rest of the industry through the mobility of workers. We study two labor market settings and use comparative statics to derive the implications of the model. They reveal how labor mobility depends on the variety and level of knowledge, the presence of mobility costs, the institutional environment, the absorptive capacity of the firms and the size of the industry. Results are robust to different labor market settings.

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Paper provided by Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 210.

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Date of creation: 2008
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Handle: RePEc:bar:bedcje:2008210

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• J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
• O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2008-12-14 (All new papers)
• NEP-CSE-2008-12-14 (Economics of Strategic Management)
• NEP-HRM-2008-12-14 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
• NEP-KNM-2008-12-14 (Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy)
• NEP-LAB-2008-12-14 (Labour Economics)
• NEP-MIG-2008-12-14 (Economics of Human Migration)

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