The mover's advantage: The superior performance of migrant scientists

被引：146

作者：

Franzoni, Chiara ^{[1
]}

Scellato, Giuseppe ^{[2
,3
]}

Stephan, Paula ^{[4
,5
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Politecn Milan, Sch Management, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[2] Politecn Torino, Dept Management & Prod Engn, Turin, Italy

[3] Coll Carlo Alberto, BRIC, Moncalieri Torino, Italy

[4] Georgia State Univ, Andrew Young Sch Policy Studies, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA

[5] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[6] Univ Turin, Dept Econ, I-10124 Turin, Italy

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2014年 / 122卷 / 01期

关键词：

Foreign-born scientists; High-skilled migration; Scientist mobility; Brain drain; Migrant selection; BRAIN-DRAIN; FOREIGN-BORN; INNOVATION; IMMIGRATION; COUNTRIES; SCIENCE; VISA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.040

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Migrant scientists outperform domestic scientists. The result persists after instrumenting migration for reasons of work or study with migration in childhood to minimize the effect of selection. The results are consistent with theories of knowledge recombination and specialty matching. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：89 / 93

页数：5

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