The effect of learning by hiring on productivity

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario

doi:10.1111/j.1756-2171.2012.00161.x

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“…Also, Kaiser et al (2015) and Braunerhjelm et al (2014) found a positive association between labour mobility and innovation, measured as patent applications. However, a negative relationship between innovation and mobility of highly qualified labour has also been established in previous literature (Balsvik 2011;Parrotta and Pozzoli 2012).…”

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The knowledge spillover theory of intrapreneurship

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Introducing the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Intrapreneurship, we examine how labour mobility impacts innovation distributed by firm size. A matched employer-employee dataset, pooled with firm-level patent application data, is implemented in the analysis. We provide new evidence that knowledge workers' mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on all firms' innovation output, measured as patent applications. The patterns and effects do however differ between large and small firms. More precisely, for small firms, intraregional mobility of knowledge workers who have previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect) is shown to be statistically and economically highly significant, whereas only limited impact could be detected for firms losing knowledge workers (the learning-by-diaspora effect).

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“…13 Second, our interest in managers as workers who need specific skills and perform difficult tasks relates to the literature on trade and tasks (Blinder, 2006, Grossman andRossi-Hansberg, 2008). Third, the role played by workers' mobility across firms in our analysis contributes to the recent debate about the channels via which knowledge transfer takes place (Balsvik, 2011, Parrotta andPozzoli, 2012). Last, but not least, our wage analysis contributes to the literature devoted to explaining the determinants of managers' pay (Gabaix andLandier, 2008, Guadalupe andWulf, 2008), and to the literature that studies the internal organization of the firm and how this relates to a firm's characteristics such as export status .…”

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Managers' mobility, trade performance, and wages

Mion

Opromolla

2014

Journal of International Economics

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“…Several recent empirical studies, including Gorg and Strobl (2005), Markusen and Trofimenko (2009), Balsvik (2011), Parrotta and Pozzoli (2012), and Stoyanov and Zubanov (2012), have documented the workings of this mechanism, linking firm productivity gains to hiring workers from technologically superior firms. 1 Since the latter receive no compensation from the firms that hire their workers, the existence of knowledge spillovers through worker mobility implies a positive externality.…”

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The distribution of the gains from spillovers through worker mobility between workers and firms

Stoyanov

Zubanov

2014

European Economic Review

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a b s t r a c tKnowledge spillovers through worker mobility between firms, found in previous research, imply that knowledge production within firms creates a positive externality to the hiring firms and their workers. We calculate the shares in the gains from spillovers retained by these parties using matched employer employee data from Danish manufacturing. We find that around two thirds of the total output gain (0.1% per year) is netted by the firms as extra profit, about a quarter goes to the incumbent workers as extra wages, while the workers who bring spillovers receive no more than 8% of it. This gains distribution, which favors the hiring firms, is similar for different types of moving workers, and is stable over time.

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The effect of learning by hiring on productivity

Cited by 95 publications

References 22 publications

The knowledge spillover theory of intrapreneurship

The knowledge spillover theory of intrapreneurship

Managers' mobility, trade performance, and wages

The distribution of the gains from spillovers through worker mobility between workers and firms

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