Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89866 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7702
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
productivity spillovers
worker mobility
wages
matched employer-employee data
JEL: 
D24
J31
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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