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Do Co-Worker Networks Increase or Decrease Productivity Differences?

Lőrincz, László (2021) Do Co-Worker Networks Increase or Decrease Productivity Differences? Entropy, 23 (11). DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/e23111451

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/e23111451


Abstract

Do labor mobility and co-worker networks contribute to convergence or divergence between regions? Based on the previous literature, labor mobility contributes to knowledge transfer between firms. Therefore, mobility may contribute to decreasing productivity differences, while limited mobility sustains higher differences. The effect of co-worker networks, however, can be two-fold in this process; they transmit information about potential jobs, which may enhance the mobility of workers—even between regions—and this enhanced mobility may contribute to levelling of differences. However, if mobility between regions involves movement costs, co-worker networks may concentrate locally—possibly contributing to the persistence of regional differences. In this paper, we build an agent-based model of labor mobility across firms and regions with knowledge spillovers that reflects key empirical observations on labor markets. We analyze the impact of network information provided about potential employers in this model and find that it contributes to increasing inter-regional mobility, and subsequently, to decreasing regional differences. We also find that both the density of coworker networks, as well as their regional concentrations, decrease if network information is available.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:labor mobility, co-worker networks, regional inequality, knowledge spillovers, agent-based simulation
Divisions:Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS)
Subjects:Human resource management
Economic development
Logistics, production management
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/e23111451
ID Code:7034
Deposited By: MTMT SWORD
Deposited On:17 Nov 2021 10:40
Last Modified:13 Apr 2022 11:31

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