- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 2
- Industry Dynamics a...
- Autor(in)
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Erschienen
- 20. Dezember 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-095
- Schlagwort(e)
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highly qualified workers
knowledge transmission
mobility
technological change
- Zusammenfsg.
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The literature on knowledge spillovers offers substantial evidence that workers, as main carriers of knowledge, play a role in the diffusion of knowledge among firms. One of the channels through which knowledge is diffused is the job-to-job mobility of workers. The research question addressed in this study is an empirical exploration of the industry-specific factors that influence the level of job-to-job mobility of highly qualified workers (HQWs) within three-digit industrial sectors. To this end, we use panel data based on the social security records of the German Federal Employment Agency. We find that HQW job-to-job mobility is dependent on technology-specific and an industry’s evolution-specific factors. The results show a significant and positive effect of the technological regime and the level of job destruction on the degree of voluntary and overall HQW mobility. The intra-industry mobility of this group is also affected by establishment-size effects, the inflow of HQWs from other industries, and the type of industry (service or manufacturing).
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief ; J44 - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations ; J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility ; O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes