In this paper I consider the effects of migration on the spread and speed of the propagation of new conventions …

We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large …-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a … effect is stronger than the one caused by the migration of other high skilled workers and scientists. …

We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large …-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a … effect is stronger than the one caused by the migration of other high skilled workers and scientists. …

migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in … components of human-capital, such as age, education and diversity of origin. To address the possible endogeneity of migration we …

Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western … economies since the late 1990s – import competition from China and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly …