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Title: | Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel? |
Author: | Miguélez, Ernest Temgoua, Claudia Noumedem |
Keywords: | Inventors Difusió selectiva de la informació Científics Patents d'invenció Inventors Selective dissemination of information Scientists Patents |
Issue Date: | 1-Nov-2020 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | This paper documents the influence of networks of highly skilled migrants on the international diffusion of knowledge – particularly those with degrees and occupations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It investigates knowledge inflows to host countries brought in by skilled immigrants. It then explores knowledge feedback to home countries generated by these migrants. We test our hypotheses in a country-pair gravity model setting, for the period 1990-2010, using patent citations across countries to measure international knowledge diffusion. Our results confirm our hypotheses on the positive impact of skilled migrants on knowledge flows to host and home countries. However, they are not robust to instrumental variables and country-pair fixed-effects, and only matter in certain contexts: when the sending countries are developing nations and for knowledge diffusion within the boundaries of multinationals. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103914 |
It is part of: | Research Policy, 2020, vol. 49, num.9 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219164 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103914 |
ISSN: | 0048-7333 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) |
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