Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local … estimate the key co-location and diaspora parameters; the net effect of innovator emigration is to harm domestic knowledge …'s most important inventions as measured by citations received. Thus, our findings imply that the optimal emigration level may …

This study investigates the effect of high-skilled inventor emigration rate on growth rate of the country of origin … positive and statistically significant effect exists for the interaction of inventor emigration and trade. The result indicates …

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …