| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14312 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14312 |
| How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation? | |
| Jennifer Hunt; Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-09-10 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees in science and engineering. These data imply that a one percentage point rise in the share of immigrant college graduates in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1950-2000 state panel, we show that natives are not crowded out by immigrants, and that immigrants do have positive spill-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of about 15% in response to a one percentage point increase in immigrant college graduates. We isolate the causal effect by instrumenting the change in the share of skilled immigrants in a state with the initial share of immigrant high school dropouts from Europe, China and India. In both data sets, the positive impacts of immigrant post-college graduates and scientists and engineers are larger than for immigrant college graduates. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14312 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571988 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jennifer Hunt,Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle. How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?. 2008. |
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