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ICC Advance Access published online on June 22, 2009
Industrial and Corporate Change, doi:10.1093/icc/dtp031
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© The Authors 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

Is inter-firm labor mobility a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a linked employer–employee panel

Mika Maliranta, Pierre Mohnen and Petri Rouvinen

Correspondence: Mika Maliranta, ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lönnrotinkatu 4 B FI-00120 Helsinki Finland, e-mail: mika.maliranta{at}etla.fi

Correspondence: Pierre Mohnen, UNU-MERIT, Keizer Karelplein 19 6211 TC Maastricht The Netherlands. e-mail: p.mohnen{at}merit.unimaas.nl

Correspondence: Petri Rouvinen, ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Lönnrotinkatu 4 B FI-00120 Helsinki Finland. e-mail: petri.rouvinen{at}etla.fi

An employer–employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others’ R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers previously in R&D to one's non-R&D activities, however, boosts both productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied and implemented without much additional R&D effort.


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