a column by Dany Bahar, Raj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
There is considerable historical and contemporary evidence of the linkages between skilled migration and innovation, suggesting that one of the most important engines of economic growth stands to be strongly negatively affected by the growing backlash against migration around the world.
Based on a 95-country sample spanning several decades, this column shows that migrant inventors play an important role in shaping the patent production of their destination countries. Arguably, these dynamics – driven by migrant inventors – can also affect broader economic outcomes, given the secondary effects of patenting and innovation on productivity and firm performance.
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The “pictures” are not, perhaps, as colourful as usual but are just as illuminating.
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migration, innovation, entrepreneurs, inventors, patents,
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