Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation*

Volume: 107, Issue: 4, Pages: 693 - 709
Published: Dec 1, 2005
Abstract
While there is a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals, this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The new approach in this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data on whether or not the owner of a domestic firm has previous experience in a multinational, and relate this information to firm-level productivity. Our...
Paper Details
Title
Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation*
Published Date
Dec 1, 2005
Volume
107
Issue
4
Pages
693 - 709
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