International knowledge spillovers: The benefits from employing immigrants

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This paper explores the role of immigrant employees for a firm's capability to absorb international knowledge. Using matched employer-employee data from Denmark for the years 1999 to 2009, we are able to show that non-Danish employees contribute significantly to a firm's economic output through their ability to access international knowledge. The immigrants' impact increases if they come from technological advanced countries, have a high educational level, and are employed in high skilled positions. However, the latter does not hold for immigrant managers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 323

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Production and Organizations: General ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
• Subject: R&D Spillovers ; Absorptive Capacity ; Firm-Level Analysis ; Foreign Workers ; Immigrants

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bitzer, Jürgen ; Gören, Erkan ; Hiller, Sanne
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Lüneburg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/106916
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