| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP14916 |
| DP14916 Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration | |
| Francesco Campo; Mariapia Mendola; Andrea Morrison; Gianmarco Ottaviano | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-06-21 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument following the location choices of thousands of immigrant inventors across US counties during the Age of Mass Migration. To do so we combine a unique USPTO historical patent dataset with Census data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. However, we also find that immigrant diversity acts as an additional significant pull factor. This is mainly due to externalities that foster immigrant inventors’ innovativeness. These findings are relevant for today’s advanced economies that have become major receivers of migrant flows and, in a long-term perspective, have started thinking about immigration in terms of not only level but also composition. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | International migration Cultural diversity Innovation |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14916 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543857 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francesco Campo,Mariapia Mendola,Andrea Morrison,et al. DP14916 Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration. 2020. |
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