Skilled migration and innovation in European industries

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.11.002

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“…Our study contributes to the literature in three ways: First, we focus on the R&D effect of ITI in the context of a developing country-China, thereby complementing the existing studies which mainly investigate the influence of human mobility on patents (Liu et al, 2010;Filatotchev et al, 2011), on knowledge transfer across borders (Liu et al, 2015), and on outward FDI (Gao et al, 2013). Second, while the existing studies are based on State-level panel data (Faggian and McCann, 2009;Ozgen et al, 2014;Jahn and Steinhardt, 2016;Bratti and Conti, 2018), industry-level data (Fassio et al, 2019), time-series data (Chellaraj et al, 2008), cross-section survey data (Filatotchev et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2010;Gagliardi, 2015), or individual interview data (Liu et al, 2015;Zheng and Ejermo, 2015), we use a detailed and unbalanced panel database with rich information on 338,242 Chinese manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2007. It not only has a large number of observations, but also includes both the time dimension and the cross-section dimension.…”

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International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

2020

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Using firm-level R&D data with regional international talent data, we find that international talent increases the R&D investment of Chinese manufacturing firms, a result that is further confirmed with patent data and under a number of robustness checks. These findings stem from two mechanisms: international talent boosts human capital accumulation and provides a diversified labor force. Further, the R&D promoting effect is stronger if firms are located in eastern China rather than in other regions, of small and medium-sized rather than large-sized, of domestic ownership rather than foreign ownership. The policy implication is, the introduction of international talent can be a new way to promoting R&D investment, especially for skilled-labor constrained countries. and examine the impact of ITI on firms' R&D investment in China. The results indicate that ITI increases the R&D investment of Chinese manufacturing firms, and the promoting effect is stronger if the firms are located in eastern China. Further, ITI increases the R&D investment of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) more than large-sized firms, and increases the R&D investment of domestic firms but not foreign firms. In addition, using patent data, we confirm the positive effect of ITI on firm-level innovation. These findings suggest that the introduction of international talent is a new way to promoting firm-level R&D investment, and it is especially important for SMEs and domestic firms which are more resource constrained.In the theoretical literature, several mechanisms, such as a human capital accumulation effect and a labor force diversity effect, have been posited to explain the influence of immigration on innovation. On the one hand, the former effect states that ITI increases the number of research workers and enriches the local knowledge base,

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International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

2020

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“…Other benefits from international students and skilled immigrants including innovation (Fassio et al, 2019;Albarran et al, 2017;Akcigit et al, 2017a,b;Stephan et al, 2015;Franzoni et al, 2014;Gaule and Piacentini, 2013;Mattoo et al, 2012;Stuen et al, 2012;Kerr and Lincoln, 2010;Hunt and Gauthier Loiselle, 2010;Levin and Stephan, 2009;Chellaraj et al, 2008;Stephan and Levin, 2001) and increased STEM employment for natives (Hanson and Slaughter, 2019) have been confirmed. Finally, a recent study indicates that older US Medicare patients who consulted with foreign born doctors had lower mortality rates than those who consulted with US born doctors.…”

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The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility: Directions for Research

Chellaraj¹

2019

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Conducting a study for 16 European industries Fassio et al (2019) discovered that skilled immigrants have a greater influence on innovativeness in industries with low levels of overeducation, high levels of FDIs and openness to trade. Also, at the firm level, the ethnic diversity of educated immigrants plays an important role in the innovation process, providing complementary skills to natives and contributing to knowledge spill-overs.…”

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The Effects of Highly-Educated Immigrants on Innovation in Three Developed European Countries

Sinoi

2020

Journal of Social and Economic Statistics

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In the current globalized world, migration represents a topic of great interest, generating advantages and downsides as well, both for the people and the communities implicated. Highly-educated migrants represent a key factor in fostering innovation, productivity and economic growth, and promote knowledge diffusion/distribution in both directions, from origin to destination country and vice versa. This research investigates the effects of highly-educated immigrants on the number of patents (a good proxy for measuring innovation activities), in the case of Austria, Finland and Sweden, between 2011 and 2017. For the empirical analysis of the study case, we used panel data and developed a multiple linear regression model estimated through the ordinary least squares method (OLS), at the country-level. In line with the vast existing literature, the main finding of this paper is that highly-educated immigrants, representing external factors of innovation, have a positive and significant impact on the number of patent applications in all three receiving countries. Moreover, financial support in R&D (in different sectors) and investments in human capital (from diverse fields) serve as internal factors of innovation and also contribute vastly to the enhancement of innovation.

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Skilled migration and innovation in European industries

Cited by 102 publications

References 66 publications

International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China

The Economics of International Student and Scholar Mobility: Directions for Research

The Effects of Highly-Educated Immigrants on Innovation in Three Developed European Countries

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