Arbeitspapier

Globalization, Recruitments, and Job Mobility

Previous research indicates that exporting firms are willing to pay a premium to poach workers from other exporting firms if experience working for an internationally engaged firm reduces trade costs. Since international experience is less valuable to non-exporters, we would expect to see differences in recruitments between firms that are internationally engaged and those that serve only their domestic market. Moreover, as emphasized in Davidson et al. (2020), increased openness might lead to higher job-to-job mobility if increased globalization increases both the share of exporters as well as the number of workers with skills that make them attractive for other exporters. Using linked Swedish employer-employee data for the period 1997-2013, we do find systematic differences between the way exporters and non-exporters recruit workers: exporters have a relatively high share of recruitments from other exporters as hypothesized. We also find that increased openness correlates positively (negatively) with upward (downward) mobility. The effects are strongest for professionals and managers. Hence, our findings provide empirical support for Davidson et al. (2020).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1354

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Thema
Globalization
Export
Job-Mobility
Recruitments

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Davidson, Carl
Heyman, Fredrik
Matusz, Steven J.
Sjöholm, Fredrik
Zhu, Susan Chun
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Davidson, Carl
  • Heyman, Fredrik
  • Matusz, Steven J.
  • Sjöholm, Fredrik
  • Zhu, Susan Chun
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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