This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on …”superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European … Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …

reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate inventors respond more …This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment …

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar …" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European … Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …