• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Productivity spillovers through labor flows: The effect of productivity gap, foreign-owned firms, and skill-relatedness
  • Contributor: Csáfordi, Zsolt [Author]; Lőrincz, László [Author]; Lengyel, Balázs [Author]; Kiss, Károly Miklós [Author]
  • Published: Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, 2016
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-615-5594-43-4
  • Keywords: firm productivity ; skill-relatedness network ; J60 ; productivity gap ; knowledge spillover ; M51 ; J24 ; labor mobility ; foreign ownership ; D22
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  • Description: What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the sending and receiving firms have been found to drive these spillovers; while an alternative explanation suggests that labor flows from foreign-owned companies provide productivity gains for the firm. We argue here that skill-relatedness across firms also matters because industry-specific skills are important for organizational learning and production. Hungarian employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers. Furthermore, we find that flows from skill-related industries outperform the effect of flows from unrelated industries.
  • Access State: Open Access