Knowledge Remittances: Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3338774

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“…A study of 32 European countries indeed finds positive effects of emigration on innovation in the sending countries. Through knowledge transfers, emigration can help to reduce the gap in innovation between high-and low-income countries [14].…”

Section: Emigration and Innovationmentioning

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“…BENJAMIN ELSNER | Does emigration increase the wages of non-emigrants in sending countries of background references for the material presented here and has been used intensively in all major parts of this article [1], [11]. Version 2 of the article includes new or updated figures, a new section on emigration and innovation, and new "Key references" [1], [6], [13], [14].…”

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Does emigration increase the wages of non-emigrants in sending countries

Elsner¹

2022

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Emigration can change the wage level and distribution in sending countries. These effects are larger than the effects of immigration in receiving countries. In the short term, emigration leads to labor shortages that increase the wages of non-emigrants with skills similar to those of emigrants (generally high-skilled workers), while lowering the wages of workers with different skills (often low-skilled workers). In the long term, however, the wage effects can be negative. Since low-skilled workers in sending countries generally lose from emigration, policy should focus on helping workers adapt, so they can fill the gaps left by high-skilled emigrants. ELEVATOR PITCHHow migration affects labor markets in receiving countries is well understood, but less is known about how migration affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of emigrants; nonemigrants with different (complementary) skills lose. These wage reactions are short-term effects, however. If a country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for everyone in the long term.

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Section: Emigration and Innovationmentioning

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Does emigration increase the wages of non-emigrants in sending countries

Elsner¹

2022

izawol

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“…Moreover, similar conclusions were found in the literature (Hunt & Gauthier‐Loiselle, 2010; Parrotta et al, 2014; Wei et al, 2020). Skilled migration not only directly brings technological innovation but also indirectly forms a complementary labor cohort to local technical workers, improving enterprises' innovation ability (Younglove‐Webb, 1999; Fackler, 2020; Fassio et al, 2019).…”

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Can international students help enhance China's urban innovation?

Wei

Yao

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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The growing number of international students coming to China has injected new vitality into the development of an innovative economy in the mainland. In this paper, we employ a panel fixed‐effect model to examine how international students affect China's technological innovation. Our paper finds that international students in China have significantly promoted urban innovation in China, reflected not only in the expansion of urban innovation scale but also in the improvement of the urban patent structure and innovation quality. This highlights the need to increase the scale of international education and improve the quality of international education.

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“…In addition, there are knowledge remittances (Fackler et al 2020, Theoharides 2017) and wage premiums (Wahba 2015). Some studies focused on political remittances, particularly the spread of democracy over the past three centuries (Krawatzek and Muller-Funk 2020).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%