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Is mobility of technical personnel a source of R&D spillovers?

Møen, Jarle
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2001-03
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Abstract
Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge

externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments.

In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge embodied

in people should be analyzed within a human capital framework. Testing such a

framework using a matched employer-employee data set, I find that the technical

staff in R&D-intensive firms pays for the knowledge they accumulate on the job

through lower wages in the beginning of their career. Later they earn a return on

these implicit investments through higher wages. This suggests that the potential

externalities associated with labor mobility, at least to some extent, are internalized in the labor market.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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Discussion paper
2001:5

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