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Knowledge Diffusion through Employee Mobility

In high-tech industries, one important method of diffusion is through employee mobility: many of the entering firms are started by employees from incumbent firms using some of their former employers' technological know-how. This paper explores the effect of incorporating this mechanism in a general industry framework by allowing employees to imitate their employers' know-how. The equilibrium is Pareto optimal since the employees 'pay' for the possibility of learning their employers' know-how. The model's implications are consistent with data from the rigid disk drive industry. These implications concern the effects of know-how on firm formation and survival.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Claremont Colleges Working Papers in Economics ; No. 2000-61

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Fiscal Policy
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
Thema
socio-political instability
endogenous growth
public investment
political economy of growth

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Franco, April Mitchell
Filson, Darren
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics
(wo)
Claremont, CA
(wann)
2000

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Franco, April Mitchell
  • Filson, Darren
  • Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2000

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