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Is Inter-firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

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Mika Maliranta
Pierre Mohnen
Petri Rouvinen

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ABSTRACT : 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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Paper provided by The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy in its series Discussion Papers with number 1116.

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Date of creation: 11 Jan 2008
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Keywords: labor mobility; R&D spillovers; profitability; linked employer-employee data;

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D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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