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The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …
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Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...
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How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new...
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How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282240
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700950
different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bankâ …€™s Enterprise Survey, we find that short–term mobility positively contributes to innovation, making this a potentially effective …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180187