How Tall Are the Paper Walls? Barriers to International Mobility and Technology Diusion

Imran Arif

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2019, vol. 49, issue 2

Abstract: International mobility promotes technology diusion across countries; on the other hand, barriers to international mobility can hinder the process of technology diusion. This paper uses bilateral visa restrictions data from 30 host and 161 home countries for 2001-2012 to show that the global technology gap increases as the barriers to international mobility increase. These results are robust across dyadic and cross-sectional data as well as OLS and 2SLS estimation methods. The results suggest that visa facilitation programs by advanced countries could promote international technology diusion.

Keywords: Research; and; Development/Tech; Change/Emerging; Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.339934

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