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Exporting, innovation and the role of immigrants
Sin, Isabelle; Fabling, Richard; Jaffe, Adam B.; Maré, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301023
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
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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 economic consequences of "Brain Drain" of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010
; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809999
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The Economic Consequences of 'Brain Drain' of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Gibson, John - 2010
; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139051
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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Li, Lei; Fan, Jingting - 2023
Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014304459
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Skill-biased imports, skill acquisition, and migration
Fan, Jingting; Li, Lei - 2023
Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290410
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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014294119
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414835