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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528595
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580162
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration : Evidence from German Establishments
Brinatti, Agostina; Morales, Nicolas - 2021
We revisit the old question of how immigration affects the welfare of native workers. As opposed to most of the previous literature, we look at this question through the lens of firms, as they play a crucial role in immigration and are massively heterogeneous even within sectors. We use a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219849
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration : Evidence from German Establishments
Brinatti, Agostina; Morales, Nicolas - 2022
We use a detailed establishment-level dataset from Germany to document a new dimension of firm heterogeneity: large firms spend a higher share of their wage bill on immigrants than small firms. We show analytically that ignoring this heterogeneity in the immigrant share leads to biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013297786
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
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Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? Patents Dynamic in France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019333
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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021957
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718191
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High Unemployment in Germany: Why do Foreigners Suffer Most?
Geis, Wido - 2010
In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312169
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Chapter 11. High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 537-583). 2015
temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025472