Labour market mobility, knowledge diffusion and innovation

Braunerhjelm, Pontus,1953-KTH,Blekinge Tekniska Högskola,Institutionen för industriell ekonomi,Nationalekonomi,Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Grevgatan 34, SE-11453 Stockholm, Sweden.;Blekinge Inst Technol, SE-37179 Karlskrona, Sweden. (author)

QC 20200528
Utilising a unique Swedish matched employer–employee dataset, which has been pooled with firm-level patent application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is statistically and economically highly significant for knowledge workers who have previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect), whereas only limited impact could be detected for firms losing knowledge workers (the learning-by-diaspora effect). No effects were detected for inexperienced university graduates. Finally, the effect is more pronounced when the joining worker originates from within the same region. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.

Ding, Ding,1986-KTH,Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.),KTH,SWE(Swepub:kth)u1kxbzs2 (author)
Thulin, Per,1963-KTH,Nationalekonomi,KTH, SWE(Swepub:kth)u146asjr (author)
Blekinge Tekniska HögskolaInstitutionen för industriell ekonomi (creator_code:org_t)

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