KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS FROM MULTINATIONAL TO DOMESTIC FIRMS: EVIDENCE FROM WORKER MOBILITY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Poole, Jennifer P.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00258
• 发表日期: 2013-05
• 页码: 393-406
• 关键词: FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; spillovers; PRODUCTIVITY; exporters; wages; Heterogeneity; INEQUALITY; employer; GROWTH

摘要

Labor turnover is a commonly cited mechanism for the transmission of technology from multinational to domestic firms. Using a matched establishment-worker database from Brazil, I present evidence consistent with positive multinational wage spillovers through worker mobility. When workers leave multinationals and are rehired at domestic establishments, continuing-workers' wages increase. To my knowledge, this avenue for wage spillovers has not previously been explored. The paper also investigates where spillovers occur and how they are absorbed to demonstrate heterogeneous impacts. Higher-skilled former multinational workers are better able to transfer information, and higher-skilled incumbent domestic workers are better able to absorb information.