Innovation and immigration — Insights from a placement policy

Vera Jahn and Max Steinhardt ()

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 146, issue C, 116-119

Abstract: We examine the impact of immigration on innovation by exploiting a placement policy for immigrants in Germany. This allows us to overcome the potential bias of endogenous location decisions. Although the majority of inflows was unskilled, we do not find any evidence of a negative impact on innovations. Instead, our panel estimates suggest that immigration had no or even a positive impact on innovations.

Keywords: Innovation; Immigration; Quasi-experimental setting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O32 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.07.033

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