High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden () and Christopher Parsons ()
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Çağlar Özden: Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC
Christopher Parsons: Department of Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth WA 6009, Australia

Annual Review of Economics, 2017, vol. 9, issue 1, 201-234

Abstract: This article 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 in the literature that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

Keywords: migration; talent; diaspora; agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F22 J15 J31 J44 L14 L26 O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: High-skilled migration and agglomeration (2017)
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