Productivity Spillovers Across Firms through Worker Mobility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay
• 署名单位: York University - Canada; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.4.2.168
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 168-198
• 关键词: knowledge spillovers; size distribution; panel-data; INNOVATION; DYNAMICS

摘要

Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience productivity gains one year after the hiring. The productivity gains associated with hiring from more productive firms are equivalent to 0.35 percent per year for an average firm. Surviving a variety of statistical controls, these gains increase with education, tenure, and skill level of new hires, persist for several years after the hiring was done, and remain broadly similar for different industries and measures of productivity. Competing explanations for these gains, knowledge spillovers in particular, are discussed. (JEL D24, J24, J62, L60, O33)