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Migration, Research and Innovation

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  • Jane Nilsson

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High-skill workers play a central role in both the knowledge economy and cross-country labour mobility. The number of international migrants with a tertiary education has more than doubled in the last two decades. The present study uses world-wide individual level migration data and estimates econometrically to what extent high-skill international migration contributes to the knowledge creation in destination countries, as well as to the knowledge diffusion worldwide. Our result suggest that the role of international high-skill migrants is substantial both ion the knowledge creation and knowledge diffusion.

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  • Jane Nilsson, 2018. "Migration, Research and Innovation," Journal of Economics and Econometrics, Economics and Econometrics Society, vol. 61(1), pages 96-127.
    • Handle: RePEc:eei:journl:v:61:y:2018:i:1:p:96-127
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    Keywords

    High-skill Labour; Migration; Research; Innovation.;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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