We present a comprehensive agent-based model of a closed system of cities. The model includes two types of agents - employees and firms. Firms compete for workers and make decisions concerning what to produce and whether to adopt innovations. Individual employees make migration decisions. Some...

Migration can be traced from time immemorial and affects both the places people leave and the places they move into, and is a powerful driver of economic, political and social change. Actual migration is constrained by the individual or household capability, including the financial or social...

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...

Poor productivity performance has been identified as a significant issue for New Zealand, and innovation is seen as a key mechanism for improving productivity growth. Understanding the drivers of firm innovation therefore represents an important step towards improving New Zealand’s economic...

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...

Migration can be traced from time immemorial and affect both the place people leave and the place they move and is a powerful driver of economic, political and social change. Actual migration is constrained by the individual or household capability, including the financial or social capital....