Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

Choudhury, Prithwiraj

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2401975

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“…These differences, however, are far from statistically significant and are at best indicative of what might lie ahead as bigger samples and longer time horizons emerge. We also believe that truly answering these questions requires marrying patent data with cross‐border employment records for multinational firms (Choudhury, ) to provide a more comprehensive view of inventor teams and mobility.…”

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Kerr

2018

The Economic Journal

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“…(). Singh (), Obukhova (), Choudhury () and Hovhannisyan and Keller () study related forms of international labour mobility and technology diffusion.…”

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Kerr

2018

The Economic Journal

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“…These papers also outline the longer earlier literature. Choudhury (2014) and Choudhury and Khanna (2014) flip the lens around and demonstrate in India how the movement of resources and labor in multiunit and multinational firms affects the innovation of the local areas in which these firms operate.…”

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino¹,

Kerr²

2014

Working Paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

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This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss important findings from the literature about why this is so. We highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance). JEL: J2, J6, L1, L2, L6, O3, R1, R3

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“…The effect of migration on source countries received less attention. Kerr (2008) and Choudhury (2015) find that source countries benefit from knowledge flows and return migration and consequently increase patenting and innovation. Kaiser et al (2015) provide firm-level evidence by looking at worker mobility within Denmark.…”

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Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?

2020

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Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country anymore, they contribute to crossborder knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up to the technology frontier.

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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

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Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?

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