Productivity spillovers through labor flows: productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness

Csáfordi, Zsolt; Lőrincz, László; Lengyel, Balázs; Kiss, Károly Miklós

doi:10.1007/s10961-018-9670-8

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“…One can also find indirect evidence on spillovers, considering that MNEs are more productive and more likely to export and engage in R&D. Stoyanov and Zubanov (2012) show that (in Denmark) workers coming from more productive firms experience productivity gains. Similar results are presented for Hungary by Csáfordi et al (2018). Mion and Opromolla (2013) show that export experience implies higher export performance and a sizable wage premium for Portuguese managers, who leave for non-exporters.…”

Section: Previous Findings On the Foreign-domestic Wage Gap Lagged Rsupporting

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Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer–employee data

Köllő

Boza²,

Balázsi³

2021

J Labour Market Res

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We compare the wages of skilled workers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the wages of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on monthly panel data covering half of the Hungarian population and their employers in 2003–2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of different ownership, and the movement of workers between enterprises. We find high contemporaneous and lagged returns to MNE experience and significant spillover effects. Foreign acquisition has a moderate wage impact, but there is a wide gap between new MNEs and domestic firms. The findings, taken together, suggest that MNE employees accumulate partly transferable knowledge, valued in the high-wage segment of the local economy that is connected with the MNEs via worker turnover.

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Section: Previous Findings On the Foreign-domestic Wage Gap Lagged Rsupporting

confidence: 73%

Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer–employee data

Köllő

Boza²,

Balázsi³

2021

J Labour Market Res

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“…Worker mobility is a major source of transferring knowledge between firms, as firms utilize the incoming personnel's knowledge and skills that they have acquired throughout their careers [1][2][3][4]. A piece of direct evidence for this knowledge spillover is that hiring workers from better-performing firms increases the recipient firms' productivity [5][6][7][8]. In addition, increased wages of workers at the recipient firm after hiring personnel from high-performing competitors indicates the within-firm diffusion of new knowledge [9].…”

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Do Co-Worker Networks Increase or Decrease Productivity Differences?

Lőrincz

2021

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Do labor mobility and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms. Therefore, mobility may contribute to decreasing productivity differences, while limited mobility sustains higher differences. The effect of co-worker networks, however, can be two-fold in this process; they transmit information about potential jobs, which may enhance the mobility of workers—even between regions—and this enhanced mobility may contribute to levelling of differences. However, if mobility between regions involves movement costs, co-worker networks may concentrate locally—possibly contributing to the persistence of regional differences. In this paper, we build an agent-based model of labor mobility across firms and regions with knowledge spillovers that reflects key empirical observations on labor markets. We analyze the impact of network information provided about potential employers in this model and find that it contributes to increasing inter-regional mobility, and subsequently, to decreasing regional differences. We also find that both the density of coworker networks, as well as their regional concentrations, decrease if network information is available.

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“…Previous research has explored the combination of firms' existing skills with new skills by investigating flows of skilled labour (Breschi and Lissoni 2009;Eriksson and Lindgren 2009). The conclusive claim is that a complementarity of incoming workers' skills and the skills already present in the firm boosts performance (Boschma et al 2009;Csáfordi et al 2020;Ter Wal et al 2016). At the individual level, complementary skills within the firm have been found to increase wages (Neffke 2019).…”

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Global connections and the structure of skills in local co-worker networks

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Social connections that reach distant places are advantageous for individuals, firms and cities, providing access to new skills and knowledge. However, systematic evidence on how firms build global knowledge access is still lacking. In this paper, we analyse how global work connections relate to differences in the skill composition of employees within companies and local industry clusters. We gather survey data from 10% of workers in a local industry in Sweden, and complement this with digital trace data to map co-worker networks and skill composition. This unique combination of data and features allows us to quantify global connections of employees and measure the degree of skill similarity and skill relatedness to co-workers. We find that workers with extensive local networks typically have skills related to those of others in the region and to those of their co-workers. Workers with more global ties typically bring in less related skills to the region. These results provide new insights into the composition of skills within knowledge-intensive firms by connecting the geography of network contacts to the diversity of skills accessible through them.

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Productivity spillovers through labor flows: productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness

Cited by 28 publications

References 71 publications

Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer–employee data

Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer–employee data

Do Co-Worker Networks Increase or Decrease Productivity Differences?

Global connections and the structure of skills in local co-worker networks

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