Erschienen in:ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper ; No. 10-032
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1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1622715
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2010 erstellt
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to simultaneous leave and inflow of R&D workers even if the size of R&D employment remains unchanged. Hence, we can separate the effect of replacement from net change in R&D workforce. Our results from estimating various knowledge production functions suggest an inverse u-shaped relationship. The exchange of R&D personnel fosters innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs of churning exceed the benefits is reached faster if the R&D knowledge is non-duplicative