TY  - GEN
AB  - The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent political movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of local inventors in German counties in 2001-2010. For causal identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis.
AU  - Candel-Haug, Katharina.
AU  - Cuntz, Alexander
AU  - Falck, Oliver
DO  - 10.34667/tind.29077
DO  - doi
ID  - 29077
L1  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/29077/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_52.pdf
L2  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/29077/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_52.pdf
L4  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/29077/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_52.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/29077/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_52.pdf
N2  - The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent political movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of local inventors in German counties in 2001-2010. For causal identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis.
SN  - 2957-8256
T1  - Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness :Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.
TI  - Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness :Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.
UR  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/29077/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_52.pdf
ER  -