Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation*
利用国内企业主是否曾在跨国公司工作的数据，研究工人流动如何传递外资企业的生产率溢出效应，发现同行业跨国公司工作经历的企业主所经营的企业生产率更高。
Abstract While there is a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals, this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The new approach in this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data on whether or not the owner of a domestic firm has previous experience in a multinational, and relate this information to firm‐level productivity. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners who worked for multinationals in the same industry immediately prior to opening up their own firm are more productive than other domestic firms.