High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons

No 22926, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

JEL-codes: F15 F22 J15 J31 J44 L14 L26 O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published as Sari Pekkala Kerr & William Kerr & Çağlar Özden & Christopher Parsons, 2017. "High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration," Annual Review of Economics, vol 9(1), pages 201-234.

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