The effect of learning by hiring on productivity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario
• 署名单位: Aarhus University; University of Lausanne
• 刊物名称: RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0741-6261
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2012.00161.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 167-185
• 关键词: research-and-development; KNOWLEDGE; mobility; spillovers; inputs

摘要

This article focuses on the phenomenon of interfirm labor mobility as a potential channel for knowledge transfer. Using data from the Danish employer-employee register covering the period 19952005, we investigate how knowledge carrierstechnicians and highly educated workers recruited from a donor firmcontribute to knowledge diffusion and enhanced productivity in the hiring (recipient) firm. Structural estimation of the hiring firms' production functions shows that the impact of the recruitment of knowledge carriers on a firm's value added is an increase of 1%2%. Several robustness checks confirm this finding.