This study examines how characteristics of a firm’s labor-flow network affect firm productivity. Using employee job histories, we construct inter-firm labor-flow networks for both IT-labor and non-IT labor and analyze how a firm’s network structure for the two types of labor affects firm...

The movement of information technology (IT) workers among firms is believed to be an important mechanism by which know-how complementary to IT-related innovations diffuses throughout the economy. We use a newly developed source of employee micro-data - online resume databases - to model IT...

The measurement of the impact of IT spillovers on productivity is an important emerging area of research. Studies of IT spillovers often adopt a ‘production function’ approach commonly used for measuring R&D spillovers, in which an external pool of IT investment is modeled using weighted...