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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...
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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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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 … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …
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This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013445469
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...
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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … Konfuzianismus beschränkt; vielmehr wird sie im Rahmen transnationaler Migrations-Netzwerke in einer globalisierten Welt ständig neu …
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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270059
invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251299