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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
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528595
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Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? Patents Dynamic in France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021957
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241073
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718191
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025309
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Source-destination cultural differences, immigrants' skill levels, and immigrant stocks : evidence from six OECD member countries
White, Roger; Yamasaki, Nicole - In: National Institute economic review (2014) 229, pp. 53-67
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395989
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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?
Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012
refers to the question whether labour market conditions or amenities primarily account for the huge differences in cities … the significance of jobs and amenities. With investigating cities' migration balances we choose a rather direct measure of … persistent disparities in labour market performance and amenities across cities and the high internal migration - in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515613
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Income, amenities and negative attitudes
Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-32
consequences of negative attitudes on refugees' utility from labour income and amenities. We find that attitudes towards immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479741