The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

.S. science and innovation. This paper presents the first systematic analysis of the émigrés' effects on U.S. innovation … instrument for fields of émigrés indicate that OLS may underestimate effects on U.S. innovation. Evidence from a new data set on … the patent histories of more than 500,000 U.S. inventors indicates that the émigrés arrival increased U.S. innovation by …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …