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

Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato and Paula Stephan

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 1, 89-93

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Foreign-born scientists; High-skilled migration; Scientist mobility; Brain drain; Migrant selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.040

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