International knowledge flows and technological advance

The role of migration

Bibliographic Data

ID13057731
AuthorsKacey Douglas (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume4
Issue1
Publication date2015-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIZA Journal of Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2193-9039 • E-ISSN: 2193-9039
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1186/s40176-015-0037-8
OpenAlexW2147566879
LanguageEN
References cited15

This paper investigates whether knowledge flows from host to source country as a result of migration, alleviating the negative effects associated with outward migration. Using a fixed effects Poisson regression, patent citations are used as a proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent citations is found to be positive and statistically significant. Additionally, the coefficient on immigration is found to be robust to different parameter changes in the model. These results suggest that reverse knowledge flows from outward migration help mitigate negative effects of outward migration on source countries

Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Poisson distribution · Poisson regression · Population · Proxy (statistics · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Firm Innovation and Growth · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

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