High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

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This paper 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 that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6241

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Integration ; International Migration ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing ; Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Management of Technological Innovation and R&D ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: migration ; talent ; diaspora ; agglomeration

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pekkala, Sari ; Kerr, William R. ; Özden, Caglar ; Parsons, Christopher
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149328
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET