Migration of skilled workers and innovation: A European Perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.04.002

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“…Innovation and its constituent elements have a major impact on the migration flows of highly skilled workers (Mihi-Ramirez et al, 2016;Bosetti et al, 2015;Zheng & Ejermo, 2015;Masuduzzaman, 2014). In particular, a greater degree of innovation in a country and greater economic growth could boost the arrival of HSI, which is the general hypothesis of this research.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…It is especially important in times of recession and global competition like we are currently experiencing (Mihi-Ramirez et al, 2016;Bosetti et al, 2015;Naghavi & Strozzi, 2015;OECD, 2015;Abdelbaki, 2009;Jaffe et al, 1993). This fact requires studies on the international level in order to understand the global changes that are happening (Arslan et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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How the Level of Economic Growth and the Constituent Elements of Innovation Attract International Talent?

Miranda-Martel

Mihi-Ramírez

Arteaga-Ortíz

2017

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The international flow of highly skilled workers has a large effect on any country. Simultaneously, innovation and its constituent elements allow increasing growth in a sustainable way. This paper analyses the impact of the most important constituent elements of innovation found in literature on immigration of highly skilled workers. In order to do that, we performed a cluster analysis of 182 countries (OECD and non-OECD members), which are net exporters of highly skilled immigrants, and 25 receiving countries members of the OECD. It includes a detailed discussion of results by world regions including examples of specific programmes and policies for each variable of the study. Overall, our results confirm that the attraction of international talent is related to both the constituent elements of innovation and the level of economic growth. In this regard, countries like the U.S., Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are among the main destinations of highly skilled immigrants of any region of origin due to the implementation of policies that favor the development of innovation.However, access restrictions for highly skilled workers would limit the effects of those policies. Therefore, in the design of strategies for attracting talent, the qualification of such workers should take precedence over their country of origin, thus encouraging greater innovation activities among those highly skilled immigrants.

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How the Level of Economic Growth and the Constituent Elements of Innovation Attract International Talent?

Miranda-Martel

Mihi-Ramírez

Arteaga-Ortíz

2017

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“…24 For example, Hunt and Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), Kerr and Lincoln (2010), Hayes (2011), Stuen et al (2012), Moser et al (2014), Kerr et al (2015b), Peri et al (2015), and Ghosh et al (2016). 25 For example, Ozgen et al (2011), Parrotta et al (2013), Bosetti et al (2013), Breschi et al (2014Breschi et al ( , 2015, and Nathan (2015). 26 For example, Matloff (2003), Hira (2010), Borjas and Doran (2012), and Bound et al (2015a).…”

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr

Özden

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Econ.

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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding highskilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

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“…Also Alesina, Harnoss and Rapoport, (2013) adopt a country level perspective and find a positive effect for the share of immigrants on GDP and TFP per capita. Bosetti, Cattaneo and Verdolini (2015) restrict their analysis to European countries and show that the share of migrants employed in highly-skilled occupations is positively related with the number of patent applications. Other studies find a positive effect for highly-skilled migration at the provincial or city level: Kerr and Lincoln (2010) report a positive effect for the number of immigrants on the number of patent applications in US cities.…”

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“…This evidence has suggested the importance of Europe attracting skilled professionals from abroad, in what has often been labeled as the "global race for talent" (Breschi et al, 2014;Münz, 2014). Recent empirical evidence has, indeed, found a positive effect for skilled migration on innovative outcomes in some European countries (Gagliardi, 2011;Bosetti, Cattaneo and Verdolini, 2015).…”

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Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio¹,

Kalantaryan

Venturini

2015

SSRN Journal

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Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital 1The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries -France, Germany and the United Kingdom -in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which mainly employs a regional approach, we analyse the link between migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in which they are actually employed. Moreover, it allows a distinction between the real contribution of migrants to innovation from possible intersectoral complementarities, which might as well foster innovation. We control for the different components of human-capital, such as age, education and diversity of origin. To address the possible endogeneity of migration we draw on an instrumental variable strategy originally devised by Card (2001) and adapt it at the sector level. The results show that overall migrants are relevant in all sectors, but some important differences emerge across sectors: highly-educated migrants show a larger positive effect in the high-tech sectors, while middleand low-educated ones are more relevant in manufacturing. The diversity of countries of origin contributes to innovation only in the services sectors, confirming that in empirical analyses at the regional or national level the diversity measure might capture the complementarity between sectors rather than the contribution of different national skills. JEL Classification:F22, F66, O31, O32

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Migration of skilled workers and innovation: A European Perspective

Cited by 158 publications

References 87 publications

How the Level of Economic Growth and the Constituent Elements of Innovation Attract International Talent?

How the Level of Economic Growth and the Constituent Elements of Innovation Attract International Talent?

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

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