Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Andrey Stoyanov and Nick Zubanov

No 7702, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least two-thirds of the total output gain of 0.11% per year is netted by the firms, while the workers who bring spillovers receive at most 6% of it as the wage premium. The large share retained by the firms implies that spillovers through worker mobility are mostly a positive externality to them.

Keywords: matched employer-employee data; productivity spillovers; worker mobility; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J31 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2013-10
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Published - revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35

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