High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration / Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çaǧlar Özden, Christopher Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pekkala Kerr, Sari.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kerr, William.

Özden, Çaǧlar.

Parsons, Christopher.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22926.

NBER working paper series no. w22926

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2016.