Globalization, Recruitments, and Job Mobility

Carl Davidson, Fredrik Heyman, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Chun Zhu
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Carl Davidson: Department of Economics; Michigan State University; East Lansing, MI 48824
Susan Chun Zhu: Department of Economics; Michigan State University; East Lansing, MI 48824

No 1354, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: Previous research indicates that firms pay a premium to poach workers from 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 the domestic market. Moreover, increased openness might lead to higher job-to-job mobility if more globalization raises both the share of exporters and 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 some suggestive evidence that increased openness correlates positively with upward mobility for occupations that play a major role in international commerce, such as professionals and managers.

Keywords: Globalization; Export; Job-Mobility; Recruitments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F66 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2020-09-14, Revised 2022-06-09
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