Social ties for labor market access - Lessons from the migration of East German inventors
Matthias Dorner,
Dietmar Harhoff (dietmar.harhoff@ip.mpg.de),
Tina Hinz,
Karin Hoisl and
Stefan Bender (stefan.bender@bundesbank.de)
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Matthias Dorner: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Tina Hinz: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Karin Hoisl: Copenhagen Business School ; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition ; University of Mannheim
No 201641, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]
Abstract:
"We study the impact of social ties on the migration of inventors from East to West Germany, using the fall of the Iron Curtain and German reunification as a natural experiment. We identify East German inventors via their patenting track records prior to 1990 and their social security records in the German labor market after reunification. Modeling inventor migration to West German regions after 1990, we find that Western regions with stronger historically determined social ties across the former East-West border attracted more inventors after the fall of the Iron Curtain than regions without such ties. However, mobility decisions made by inventors with outstanding patenting track records (star inventors) were not impacted by social ties. We conclude that social ties support labor market access for migrant inventors and determine regional choices while dependence on these ties is substantially reduced for star performers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)
Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; DDR; Ostdeutschland; Westdeutschland; Auswirkungen; Erfindung; Abwanderung; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Patente; regionale Herkunft; regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; soziale Beziehungen; staatlicher Zusammenschluss; Wanderungsmotivation; Wissenschaftler; Zielgebiet; Arbeitsproduktivität; 1980-2012 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J60 O30 P20 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ino, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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