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Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?
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Labor mobility is considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to research and development (R&D). Interfirm transfers of knowledge embodied in people should be analyzed within a human capital framework. Testing such a framework, I find that the technical staff in R&D‐intensive firms pays for the knowledge they accumulate on the job through lower wages early in their career. They later earn a return on these implicit investments through higher wages. This suggests that the potential externalities associated with labor mobility are, at least partially, internalized in the labor market.
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- Authors
- Møen, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 81-114
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- 0734-306X (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5307
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- W2038328972
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- 348
- References
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- 58.97
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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