Do foreign experts increase the productivity of domestic firms?

Arbeitspapier

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a difference-indifferences matching approach, we then find that firms that hire foreign experts - defined as employees eligible for reduced taxation under the Danish Tax scheme for foreign researchers and key employees - both become more productive (pay higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6001

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Thema: foreign experts ; export ; immigrants ; productivity ; difference-in-differences matching ; Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ; Sachverständige ; Ausländische Arbeitskräfte ; Einwanderung ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Produktivität ; Dänemark

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj ; Munch, Jakob R. ; Skaksen, Jan Rose
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55048
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263393
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ