Industry knowledge spillovers: do workers gain from the collective experience?

Individuals acquire experience during their working lives. This is usually thought to contribute to individuals' human capital and is rewarded in terms of pay. This paper looks at whether individuals' pay is also affected by the general experience acquired by others working in the same firm or industry. The mechanism in mind is one where individual workers benefit from exchanges of ideas and learning opportunities that arise because of the human capital of their co-workers. Analysing repeated cross-sections of workers within industry sectors and longitudinal linked employer-employee data, [the... Show more

Authors: Riley, Rebecca

Published: London, England, Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies, 2010

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 24 p.

Access item: http://www.llakes.ac.uk/sites/llakes.ac.uk/files/Riley.pdf

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