Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.

Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country.

Economic Research Working Paper No. 52

Working paper

43 pages ; [28] cm.

2957-8256

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.

Print publication.

Economics Working Papers.

Geneva, Switzerland : [World Intellectual Property Organization], 2018.

eng

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