Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Maliranta, Mika
Author-Email: mika.maliranta@etla.fi
Author-Workplace-Name: The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
Author-Name: Mohnen, Pierre
Author-Email: mohnen@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Rouvinen, Petri
Author-Email: petri.rouvinen@etla.fi
Author-Workplace-Name: The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
Title: Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a 
	 Linked Employer-Employee Panel
Abstract: An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of 
	 workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of 
	 R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from 
	 others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant 
	 spillover channel. Hiring workers previously in R&D to one's non-R&D 
	 activities, however, boosts both productivity and profitability. This is 
	 interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can 
	 be readily copied and implemented without much additional R&D effort.    
Classification-JEL: D62, J24, J62, L25, O31
Keywords: Labor Mobility, R&D Spillovers, Profitability, Linked Employer-Employee Data
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 005
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-005.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008005