I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers by estimating production functions using
a unique firm-worker matched data set. Productivity of plants in cities that experience large …

Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker
movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience …

Abstract Knowledge spillovers in the form of human capital are often regarded as the engine
of sustained growth and development. We employ a rich employer–employee matched …

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is
enhanced by a metropolitan area's stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential …

abstract By means of a unique longitudinal database with information on all industrial plants
and employees in the Swedish economy, this article analyzes how geographic proximity …

Labor mobility is considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it
difficult for firms to appropriate returns to research and development (R&D). Interfirm …

Using 4 years of data from 36 American cities and 6 high technology groupings we present
thc first estimates of University R&D spillover effects on ctnployrnent at this level of disag …

Using US firm level panel data we simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of
three potential sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technological …

This paper is the first to present direct evidence showing how localized knowledge spillovers
arise from workers changing jobs within the same local labor market. Using a unique data …

The measurement of knowledge spillovers is subject, at root, to a fundamental identification
problem, which implies that any empirical result in the area must be treated with caution …