This paper uses hybrid panel data models to assess the link between Italian mass emigration of the late 19 th - early 20 th centuries on knowledge-based high-technology manufacturing exports of Italian regions in the 2000s. Our results add to the well known evidence of migration and trade nexus...

Finding a non-academic job in line with both doctoral graduates' degree and acquired know-how can be difficult because of insufficient demand for R&D skills in public administration and private enterprise and/or because of the lack of matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders'...