Productivity spillovers through labor flows: The effect of productivity gap, foreign-owned firms, and skill-relatedness

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What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the sending and receiving firms have been found to drive these spillovers; while an alternative explanation suggests that labor flows from foreign-owned companies provide productivity gains for the firm. We argue here that skill-relatedness across firms also matters because industry-specific skills are important for organizational learning and production. Hungarian employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers. Furthermore, we find that flows from skill-related industries outperform the effect of flows from unrelated industries.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-615-5594-43-4
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2016/10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
• Subject: skill-relatedness network ; firm productivity ; knowledge spillover ; labor mobility ; productivity gap ; foreign ownership

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Csáfordi, Zsolt ; Lőrincz, László ; Lengyel, Balázs ; Kiss, Károly Miklós
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (where): Budapest
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190434
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET