Global talent flows

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 83-106

  Kerr, Sari Pekkala ^a   Kerr, William ^b   Ozden, Caglar ^c   Parsons, Christopher ^d  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994201689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.30.4.83     Document Type: Review

References (90)

1. Agrawal, Ajay, Devesh Kapur, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl. 2011. "Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation." Journal of Urban Economics 69(1): 43-55.
2. Amir, Rabah, and Malgorzata Knauff. 2008. "Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement." Review of Economics and Statistics 90(1): 185-90.
3. Anderson, Stuart. 2013. "The Importance of International Students to America." NFAP Policy Brief National Foundation for American, July
4. Arslan, Cansin, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Zovanga Kone, Yasser Moullan, Çaglar Özden, Christopher Parsons, and Theodora Xenogiani. 2014. "A New Profile of Migrants in the Aftermath of the Recent Economic Crisis." OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper 160.
5. Artuç, Erhan, Frédéric Docquier, Çaglar Özden, and Christopher Parsons. 2015. "A Global Assess-ment of Human Capital Mobility The Role of Non-OECD Destinations." World Development 65: 6-25.
6. Artuç, Erhan, and Çaglar Özden. Forthcoming. "Transit Migration: All Roads Lead to America." Economic Journal.
7. Aydemir, Abdurrahman, and Chris Robinson. 2008. "Global Labor Markets, Return and Onward Migration." Canadian Journal of Economics 41(4): 1285-1311.
8. Bandiera, Oriana, Imran Rasul, and Martina Viarengo. 2013. "The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration." Journal of Development Economics 102: 23-47.
9. Beine, Michel, Frédéric Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport. 2007. "Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry." World Bank Economic Review 21(2): 249-54.
10. Bhagwati, Jagdish N. 1976. "Taxing the Brain Drain." Challenge 19(3): 34-48.
11. Bijwaard, Govert E. 2010. "Immigrant Migration Dynamics Model for The Netherlands." Journal of Population Economics 23(4): 1213-47.
12. Bijwaard, Govert E., Christian Schluter, and Jackline Wahba. 2014. "The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants." Review of Economics and Statistics 96(3): 483-94.
13. Bijwaard, Govert E., and Jackline Wahba. 2014. "Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?" Journal of Development Economics 108: 54-68.
14. Borjas, George J. 1987. " SelfSelection and the Earnings of Immigrants." American Economic Review 77(4): 531-53.
15. Borjas, George. 2012. Labor Economics, 6th edition. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
16. Borjas, George J., and Kirk B. Doran. 2012. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians." Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(3): 1143-1203.
17. Bosetti, Valentina, Cristina Cattaneo, and Elena Verdolini. 2015. "Migration of Skilled Workers and Innovation: A European Perspective." Journal of International Economics 96(2): 311-22.
18. Bound, John, Breno Braga, Joseph Golden, and Gaurav Khanna. 2015. "Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the United States." Journal of Labor Economics 33(S1): S187-S223.
19. Bound, John, Murat Demirci, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner. 2015."Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: US Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers." Innovation Policy and the Economy 15(1): 27-72.
20. Branstetter, Lee, Guangwei Li, and Francisco Veloso. 2015. "The Rise of International Coinven-tion." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones, 135-68. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
21. Breschi, Stefano, Francesco Lissoni, and Ernest Miguelez. 2015. "Foreign Inventors in the US: Testing for Diaspora and Brain Gain Effects." CReAM Discussion Paper 1509, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, University College London.
22. Breschi, Stefano, Francesco Lissoni, and Gianluca Tarasconi. 2014. "Inventor Data for Research on Migration and Innovation: A Survey and a Pilot." WIPO Economic Research Working Paper 17, World Intellectual Property Organiza-tion.
23. Clemens, Michael A. 2011. "Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(3): 83-106.
24. Clemens, Michael A. 2013. "Why Do Program-mers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas." American Economic Review 103(3): 198-202.
25. Czaika, Mathias, and Christopher Parsons. 2015. "The Gravity of High-Skilled Migration Policies." IMI Working Paper 110, International Migration Institute.
26. Del Carpio, Ximena, Çaglar Özden, Mauro Testaverde, Mohamed Marouani, Bjorn Nilsson, and Mathis Wagner. 2015. "Foreign Workers in Malaysia: Labor Market and Firm Level Analysis." Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 52(1): 1-19.
27. Docquier, Frédéric, B. Lindsay Lowell, and Abdeslam Marfouk. 2009. "A Gendered Assess-ment of Highly Skilled Emigration." Population and Development Review 35(2): 297-321.
28. Docquier, Frédéric, and Elisabetta Lodigiani. 2010. "Skilled Migration and Business Networks." Open Economies Review 21(4): 565-88.
29. Docquier, Frédéric, and Hillel Rapoport. 2012. "Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development." Journal of Economic Literature 50(3): 681-730.
30. Doran, Kirk, Alexander Gelber, and Adam Isen. 2014. "The Effects of High-Skilled Immigra-tion Policy on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries." NBER Working Paper 20668.
31. Dustmann, Christian, Samuel Bentolila, and Riccardo Faini. 1996. "Return Migration: The European Experience." Economic Policy 11(22): 213-50.
32. Dustmann, Christian, and Yoram Weiss. 2007. "Return Migration: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK" British Journal of Industrial Relations 45(2): 236-56.
33. Finn, Michael G. 2007. "Stay Rates of Foreign Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities, 2005." Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Report.
34. Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. 2013. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59(7): 1529-44.
35. Franzoni, Chiara, Giuseppe Scellato, and Paula Stephan. 2012. "Foreign Born Scientists: Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries." NBER Working Paper 18067.
36. Freeman, Richard, and Wei Huang. 2015. "China's 'Great Leap Forward' in Science and Engineering." Chap. 6 in Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why, edited by Aldo Geuna. Elsevier.
37. Gaulé, Patrick. 2014. "Who Comes Back and When? Return Migration Decisions of Academic Scientists." Economics Letters 124(3): 461-64.
38. Ghosh, Anirban, Anna Maria Mayda, and Fran-cesc Ortega. 2014. "The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms." IZA Discussion Paper 8684.
39. Gibson, John, and David McKenzie. 2009. "The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and the Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific." IZA Working Paper 3926.
40. Grogger, Jeffrey, and Gordon Hanson. 2013. "The Scale and Selectivity of Foreign-Born PhD Recipients in the US." American Economic Review 103(3): 189-92.
41. Gundel, Sebastian, and Heiko Peters. 2008. "What Determines the Duration of Stay of Immigrants in Germany? Evidence from a Longi-tudinal Duration Analysis." International Journal of Social Economics 35(11): 769-82.
42. Harvey, William S. 2009. "British and Indian Scientists in Boston Considering Returning to Their Home Countries." Population, Space and Place 15(6): 493-508.
43. Hicks, John R. 1932. The Theory of Wages. London: Macmillian.
44. Hira, Ron. 2010. "The H-1B and L-1 Visa Programs: Out of Control." EPI Briefing Paper 280, October 14.
45. Hovhannisyan, Nune, and Wolfgang Keller. 2015. "International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?" Journal of Economic Growth 20(1): 75-104.
46. Hunt, Jennifer. 2011. "Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa." Journal of Labor Economics 29(3): 417-57.
47. Hunt, Jennifer, and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle. 2010. "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2(2): 31-56.
48. Jones, Chad. 1995. "R& D-Based Models of Economic Growth." Journal of Political Economy 103: 759-84.
49. Kahn, Shulamit, and Megan J. MacGarvie. 2016. "How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science?" Review of Economics and Statistics 98(2): 397-414.
50. Kapur, Devesh, and John McHale. 2005. Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World. Centre for Global Development.
51. Kato, Takao, and Chad Sparber. 2013. "Quotas and Quality The Effect of H-1B Visa Restric-tions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad." Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 109-126.
52. Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. Forthcoming. "Global Collaborative Patents." Economic Journal.
53. Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. 2015a. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." Innovation Policy and the Economy 15(1): 115-52.
54. Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. 2015b. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms." Journal of Labor Economics 33(S1): S147-S186.
55. Kerr, William R. 2008. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90(3): 518-37.
56. Kerr, William R. Forthcoming. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." In The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation-New Evidence and Policy Implica-tions, edited by Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez. Cambridge University Press.
57. Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. 2010. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28(3): 473-508.
58. Kugler, Maurice, and Hillel Rapoport. 2011. "Migration, FDI and the Margins of Trade." CID Working Paper 22, Center for International Development
59. Matloff, Norman. 2003. "On the Need for Reform of the H-1B Non-Immigrant Work Visa in Computer-Related Occupations." University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 36(4): 815-914.
60. Miguelez, Ernest. Forthcoming. "Inventor Dias-poras and the Internationalization of Technology." World Bank Economic Review.
61. Miguelez, Ernest, and Carsten Fink. 2013. "Measuring the International Mobility of Inven-tors: A New Database." WIPO Economic Research Working Paper 8, World Intellectual Property Organization.
62. Moretti, Enrico. 2012. The New Geography of Jobs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
63. Moser, Petra, Alessandra Voena, and Fabian Waldinger. 2014. "German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention." American Economic Review 104(10): 3222-55.
64. Nathan, Max. 2015. "Same Difference? Minority Ethnic Inventors, Diversity and Innovation in the UK." Journal of Economic Geography 15(1): 129-68.
65. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers. National Academies Press.
66. Nejad, Maryam Naghsh, and Andrew T. Young. 2014. "Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows." IZA Discussion Paper 8067.
67. OECD. 2008. "International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI-2008 Edition." Paris: OECD.
68. OECD. 2013. OECD Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics. Paris: OECD.
69. Özden, Çaglar, Christopher R. Parsons, Maurice Schiff, and Terrie L. Walmsley. 2011. "Where on Earth Is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration, 1960-2000." World Bank Economic Review 25(1): 12-56.
70. Özden, Çaglar, and David Phillips. 2015. "What Really Is Brain Drain? Location of Birth, Education and Migration Dynamics of African Doctors." KNOMAD Working Paper, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, World Bank.
71. Ozgen, Ceren, Peter Nijkamp, and Jacques Poot. 2011. "Immigration and Innovation in European Regions." IZA Working Paper 5676.
72. Papademetriou, Demetrios G., and Madeline Sumption. 2013. "Attracting and Selecting from the Global Talent Pool-Policy Challenges." Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC.
73. Parrotta, Pierpaolo, Dario Pozzoli, and Mariola Pytlikova. 2014. "The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation." Journal of Population Economics 27(2): 303-64.
74. Parsons, Christopher R., and L. Alan Winters. 2014. "International Migration, Trade and Aid: A Survey." Chap. 4 in International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, edited by Robert E. B. Lucas. Edward Elgar.
75. Peri, Giovanni, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber. 2015. "STEM Workers, H-1B Visas and Productivity in US Cities." Journal of Labor Economics 33(S1): S225-S255.
76. Peri, Giovanni, and Chad Sparber. 2011. " Highly-Educated Immigrants and Native Occupa-tional Choice." Industrial Relations 50(3): 385-411.
77. Pohl, Carsten. 2006. "Return Migration of Low-and High-Skilled Immigrants from Germany." Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
78. Rosen, Sherwin. 1981. "The Economics of Superstars." American Economic Review 71(5): 845-58.
79. Rosenzweig, Mark. 2006. "Global Wage Differences and International Student Flows." In Brookings Trade Forum 2006: Global Labor Markets? edited by Susan M. Collins and Carol L. Graham, 57-96. Brookings Institution Press.
80. Roy, A. D. 1951. "Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings." Oxford Economic Papers 3(2): 135-46.
81. Saxenian, AnnaLee. 2002. Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley. With Yasuyuki Motoyama and Xiaohong Quan. San Francisco, CA Public Policy Institute of California.
82. Saxenian, AnnaLee. 2006. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy. Harvard University Press.
83. Siddique, Haroon. 2014. "Figures Show Extent of NHS Reliance on Foreign Nationals." The Guardian, January 26. https://www.theguardian. com/society/2014/jan/26/nhs-foreign-nationals-immigration-health-service.
84. Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Silicon Valley Community Foundation. 2015. Silicon Valley Competitiveness and Innovation Project-2015: A Dashboard and Policy Scorecard for a Shared Agenda of Prosperity and Opportunity. http://graphics8. nytimes.com/packages/pdf/technology/SVCIP-2015-PDFfinal.pdf
85. Stephan, Paula E. 2010. "The 'I's Have It: Immigration and Innovation, The Perspective from Academe." Innovation Policy and the Economy 10(1): 83-127.
86. Stephan, Paula E., and Sharon G. Levin. 2001. "Exceptional Contributions to US Science by the Foreign-Born and Foreign-Educated." Population Research and Policy Review 20(1): 59-79.
87. Stuen, Eric, Ahmed Mobarak, and Keith Maskus. 2012. "Skilled Immigration and Innova-tion: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations in U.S. Doctoral Programs." Economic Journal 122(565): 1143-76.
88. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2013. World Population Policies 2013. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/policy/WPP2013/wpp2013.pdf.
89. Wasmer, Etienne, Paul Fredriksson, Ana Lamo, Julián Messina, and Giovanni Peri. 2007. "The Macroeconomics of Education in Europe." Part I of Education and Training in Europe, edited by Giorgio Brunello, Pietro Garibaldi, and Etienne Wasmer. Oxford University Press.
90. Weinberg, Bruce A 2011. "Developing Science: Scientific Performance and Brain Drains in the Developing World." Journal of Development Economics 95(1): 95-104.