Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity

Michel Serafinelli

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located near highly productive firms. Using matched employer-employee and balance sheet data for the Veneto region of Italy, I identify a set of high-wage firms (HWF) and show they are more productive than other firms. I then show that hiring a worker with HWF experience increases the productivity of other (non-HWF) firms. A simulation indicates that worker flows explain 10-15 percent of the productivity gains experienced by other firms when HWFs in the same industry are added to a local labor market.

Keywords: productivity; agglomeration advantages; linked employer-employee data; labor mobility. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J61 R2 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-06-09, Revised 2013-08-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff, nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ure
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