We examine the extent to which labor market facilitates diffusion of tax-planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel data set tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their planning after hiring from tax-aggressive firm. This finding is robust various research designs and specifications. Consistent with driving result, benefit...

This paper considers how increasing longevity and declining birth rates affect market entry endogenous productivity growth in a two-country model of industry location trade. Firm-level investment process innovation generates growth, with imperfect knowledge diffusion the larger country, measured by labor force size, has greater share relatively productive firms. In this framework, population ag...

Figure 1: A universal VACB system layout in the Mekong Delta Figure 2a: Farmer X's egocentric knowledge flow network Figure 2b: Farmer Y's egocentric knowledge flow network Figure 2c: Farmer Z's egocentric knowledge flow network Figure 3: " Model " farmer‐based knowledge diffusion Figure 4: Brokering farmer‐based knowledge diffusion Figure 5: A constellation of networks/communities of practice ...

Communities of practices (Cops) can improve organizational performance by effectively promoting knowledge diffusion, and recently they were receiving increasing attention from organizations in abroad. The aim of our study was to further explore how to cultivate and support Communities of practice. According to some literatures, we first studied what is the most important influencing factor of k...