This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at …We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at …We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …