Productivity spillovers across firms through worker mobility

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-198

  Stoyanov, Andrey ^a   Zubanov, Nikolay ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84866895958     PISSN: 19457782     EISSN: 19457790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/app.4.2.168     Document Type: Article

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