Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers

Christopher Baum, Hans Lööf () and Andreas Stephan

No 472, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests hypotheses on new recruitment and the economic impact of foreign STEM workers. The empirical analysis shows that the probability that a new employee is a STEM immigrant increases with the share of STEM immigrants already employed, while the marginal effect on average firm wages is positively associated with the share of immigrant STEM workers. We also document heterogeneity in the results, suggesting that European migrants are more attractive for new recruitment, but non-EU migrants have the largest impact on wage determination.

Keywords: STEM; migration; employment; wages; correlated random effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J24 J61 O14 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2018-10-04
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