Arbeitspapier

Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least two-thirds of the total output gain of 0.11% per year is netted by the firms, while the workers who bring spillovers receive at most 6% of it as the wage premium. The large share retained by the firms implies that spillovers through worker mobility are mostly a positive externality to them.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7702

Classification
Wirtschaft
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Subject
productivity spillovers
worker mobility
wages
matched employer-employee data

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Stoyanov, Andrey
Zubanov, Nikolay
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Stoyanov, Andrey
  • Zubanov, Nikolay
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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