Spillovers from Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
By Holger Görg, Eric Strobl. Social Science Research Network, 2005
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these entrepreneurs bring with them some of the knowledge accumulated in the multinational which can be usefully employed in the domestic firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other industries, or received training by multinationals.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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- Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry (2016, background): “Linkages between foreign and domestic firms are thus an important precondition for vertical spillovers to occur (Blomstro¨m and Kokko, 1998; UNCTAD, 2001; Go¨rg and Strobl, 2005; Scott-Kennel, 2007; Santangelo, 2009).”
- Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana (2010, background): “Görg and Strobl (2005) use the Ghanaian data set not to study the effect of foreign presence on productivity and spillovers per se, but to investigate a very particular channel of possible spillovers.”
- Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development (2011, unknown): “Equations (6), and (14) through (15) imply that in steady state the interest rate equals the sum of the subjective discount rate and the growth rate:”
- Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training (2007, unknown): “Görg and Strobl (2005) provide evidence for such spillovers”
- Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility (2012, unknown): “Notable studies in this field are Gorg and Strobl (2005) who find that domestic businesses in Ghana managed by ex-employees of foreignowned companies tend to be more productive and less likely to exit the market, and Malchow-Moller, Markusen, and Schjerning (2007) who develop a Melitz-type model of ”
- Exporting, linkages and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (2008, unknown): “…may be towards downstream industries (forward spillovers) and/or towards upstream industries (backward spillovers).1 While some case studies provide evidence suggestive of positive spillover effects (e.g., Moran 2001), the results from econometric analyses are mixed (e.g., Görg and Strobl, 2001).”
- FDI Spillovers and Time Since Foreign Entry (2014, unknown): “Teece (1977) suggests two main channels for horizontal spillovers: technology imitation (the demonstration effect) and mobility of workers trained by foreign firms (see also Fosfuri et al., 2001, and Görg and Strobl, 2005).”