Is inter-firm labor mobility a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a linked employer-employee panel

Mika Maliranta; Pierre Mohnen; Petri Rouvinen

doi:10.1093/icc/dtp031

Is inter-firm labor mobility a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a linked employer-employee panel

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.

Original language	English
Article number	dtp031
Pages (from-to)	1161-1191
Number of pages	31
Journal	Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume	18
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtp031
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2009
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Funding for this work was provided by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (10255/25/05).

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