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| Title: | | Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation  |
| Authors: | | Görg, Holger Strobl, Eric |
| Issue Date: | | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 591 |
| Abstract: | | While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these entrepreneurs bring with them some of the knowledge accumulated in the multinational which can be usefully employed in the domestic firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other industries, or received training by multinationals. |
| Subjects: | | foreign direct investment spillovers worker mobility training |
| JEL: | | F23 J61 F21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Economists Online IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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