Productivity spillovers through labor flows: productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness
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Csáfordi, Zsolt
Lőrincz, László
Lengyel, Balazs
Kiss, Károly Miklós
Date Issued
June 2018
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Journal of Technology Transfer
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Csáfordi, Zsolt et al. "Productivity spillovers through labor flows: productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness." Journal of Technology Transfer 45, 1 (June 2018): 86–121. © 2018 Springer Science Business Media, LLC
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Abstract
Labor flows are important channels for knowledge spillovers between firms; yet competing arguments provide different explanations for this mechanism. Firstly, productivity differences between the source and recipient firms have been found to drive these spillovers; secondly, previous evidence suggests that labor flows from multinational enterprises provide productivity gains for firms; and thirdly, industry relatedness across firms have been found important, because industry-specific skills have an impact on organizational learning and production. In this paper, we aim to disentangle the effects of productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness in a common framework. Hungarian employee–employer linked panel data from 2003–2011 imply that the incoming labor from more productive firms is associated with increasing future productivity. The impact of multinational spillovers cannot be confirmed, once productivity differences between the firms are taken into account. Furthermore, we find that flows from related industries outperform the effect of flows from same and unrelated industries even if we control for the effects of productivity gap and multinational spillovers.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9670-8
