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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.
2018
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Title
Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.
Variant Title
Economic Research Working Paper No. 52
Item Type
Working paper
Description
43 pages ; [28] cm.
ISSN
2957-8256
Summary
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.
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Print publication.
Series
Economics Working Papers.
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Published
Geneva, Switzerland : [World Intellectual Property Organization], 2018.
Language
English
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License: CC BY 3.0 IGO
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