High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; Parsons, Christopher

doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-063016-103705

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“…Based on our benchmark quality measure (and for each of the other measures), we construct a corresponding quality distribution, conditional on region of origin and year, and determine the rank of each inventor in this distribution. 6 We define superstar inventors as those in the top 1 percent of the quality distribution, and similarly construct the top 1-5 percent, the top 5-10 percent, and subsequent quality brackets.…”

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“…However, only inventors who are actually in the top bracket are directly affected by the changes in top tax rates and the higher up in the top bracket they are, the more intensely they are treated by top tax rates. The evidence presented 6 The three benchmark regions used to construct the per region and year quality distributions are based on comparable patenting intensities. They are (i) the United States, (ii) European countries and Canada, and (iii) Japan, but we also use per-country rankings for robustness checks (in online Appendix Table A16).…”

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit

Baslandze

Stantcheva

2016

American Economic Review

291

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We study the effect of top tax rates on “superstar” inventors' international mobility since 1977, using panel data on inventors from the US and European Patent Offices. We exploit the differential impact of changes in top tax rates on inventors of different qualities. Superstar inventors' location choices are significantly affected by top tax rates. In our preferred specification, the elasticity to the net-of-tax rate of the number of domestic superstar inventors is around 0.03, while that of foreign superstar inventors is around 1. These elasticities are larger for inventors in multinational companies. An inventor is less sensitive to taxes in a country if his company performs a higher share of its research there. (JEL F22, F23, H24, H31, J61, O31, O34)

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit

Baslandze

Stantcheva

2016

American Economic Review

291

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“…A broad set of empirical studies exhibited roust and consistent findings that regional disparities will aggravate population mobility, especially the flow of talent. This will, in turn, further worsen regional disparities [17][18][19][20][21][22]. The development trend in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region supports these findings, and the "population siphon" phenomenon is obvious.…”

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Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity

Chu

Liu

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Sustainability

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The economic circle around Beijing is a very important area that supports the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. The economic growths of the economic circle around Beijing are deeply affected by the regional economic disparity. Besides the resources and environment problems, economic factors may be more prominent of regional sustainability. The objective of this paper is: (1) To find out what caused the regional economic disparity of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; and (2) to assess the economic sustainable development status of the cities around Beijing, and give suggestions to narrow the regional disparity from the economic growth view. We used an assessment method based on the economic sustainable index system—the order relation method named G1 method, revised by standard deviation. The results showed that the fundamental reason for the differences lies in the disparity in production efficiency. The disparity in the regional economy increases the flow of talent to Beijing and Tianjin, so the labor productivity of Hebei Province will not improve. Thus, the economic gap among Hebei, Beijing, and Tianjin will continue to grow. This negative feedback will further exacerbate the economic growth problem. In terms of narrowing regional disparity, some implications are highlighted. Rational industrial structure, a high level of development in the manufacturing industry, and a high proportion of strategic emerging industries are important for the cities around Beijing to achieve high-level industry transfer, and the technological progress needed to promote economic growth.

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“…While until recently most of the literature concentrated on explaining differences in the stocks of skilled migrants across destination countries over time (Dumont and Lemaître, 2005;Belot and Hatton, 2012), data on flows, although still highly inefficient, has only recently started to become more common (Kerr et al, 2017;Czaika and Parsons, 2017). For the analytic objectives of this article, we have constructed a dataset combining different resources.…”

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Are They Deterred by Welfare? Digging into the Drivers of Highly Skilled Temporary and Long‐term Migrants in Europe

Cebolla‐Boado¹,

Miyar‐Busto²

2019

International Migration

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Literature researching the drivers of highly skilled migration (HSM) often prioritizes labor market returns to education and downscales the importance of public welfare. This article develops an innovative empirical strategy which allows us to see how a selection of pull factors attracts temporary and long‐term educated migrants in Europe. To do so, we built a unique longitudinal contextual dataset merging information from the European Labor Force Survey (2000‐2014) with selected Eurostat and OECD country indicators. Country‐fixed effect time series allow us to concentrate on cross‐country effects. Our evidence suggests that returns to education attract temporary HSM and long‐term stayers equally. However, it is also shown that public welfare and taxation operate differently for these two groups and do not deter long‐term residents. Our article proposes revisiting the assumption that HSMs are mere income maximizers. As we argue, long‐term HSM may well be attracted by generous welfare setups.

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Cited by 82 publications

References 138 publications

Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity

Are They Deterred by Welfare? Digging into the Drivers of Highly Skilled Temporary and Long‐term Migrants in Europe

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