Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3411 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 463
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data on whether or not the owner of a domestic firm has previous experience in a multinational, and relate this information to firm level productivity. 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 are more productive than other domestic firms.
Subjects: 
Foreign direct investment
Spillovers
Worker mobility
Training
JEL: 
J61
F23
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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