Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2878 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 591
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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: 
spillovers
worker mobility
training
foreign direct investment
JEL: 
F23
J61
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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