Is Labor Mobility a Channel for Spillovers from Multinationals? Evidence from Norwegian Manufacturing

By Ragnhild Balsvik. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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The Relationship Between Global Value Chains and Productivity (2017, background): “The mobility of workers from MNEs to other domestic firms can also be an important channel for knowledge transfers, which can lead to productivity gains for their new employers (Balsvik, 2011).”
Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries? (2012, background): “Balsvik (2011) documents extensive labor mobility flows from multinationals to non-multinationals in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s.”
Employee Mobility and Organizational Outcomes (2016, background): “Drawing on these mechanisms, research in international business has shown that personnel flows from multinationals to domestic firms are associated with increased productivity (Balsvik, 2011; Görg & Strobl, 2005), and that knowledge flows (as measured by patent citation patterns) follow employee mob”
Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility (2013, background): “Balsvik (2011) documents that workers with experience in an MNE contribute to the productivity of domestic plants in Norway.”