Title: Does skilled migration foster innovative performance? Evidence from <scp>B</scp>ritish local areas
Abstract: Papers in Regional ScienceVolume 94, Issue 4 p. 773-794 ARTICLE Does skilled migration foster innovative performance? Evidence from British local areas† Luisa Gagliardi, Luisa Gagliardi [email protected] Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE UK Centre for Regional Economics, Transport and Tourism (CeRTET), Bocconi University, Via Rontgen 1, Milan, ItalySearch for more papers by this author Luisa Gagliardi, Luisa Gagliardi [email protected] Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE UK Centre for Regional Economics, Transport and Tourism (CeRTET), Bocconi University, Via Rontgen 1, Milan, ItalySearch for more papers by this author First published: 20 January 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12095Citations: 46 †Thanks to Steve Gibbons, Andres Rodriguez Pose, Riccardo Crescenzi, Ian Gordon, Olmo Silva, the personnel of the Secure Data Service (SDS), the participants to the LSE-SERC WP, LSE-Labour WP Seminars and the CESifo Conference 2012 for suggestions and comments. All errors remain my own. ‡Disclaimers: This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland. The use of these data does not imply the endorsement of the data owner or the Secure Data Service at the UK Data Archive in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the data. This work uses research datasets, which may not exactly reproduce National Statistics aggregates. §The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° SSH-CT-2010-266959; project PICK-ME. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstracten What is the effect of an increase in the stock of human capital due to skilled immigration on the innovative performance of recipient economies? Combining firm-level micro-data with area-level labour force information, this paper investigates the impact of skilled international migration inflows on firms' product and process innovation in British local labour market areas. The paper supports the evidence in favour of a causal link between immigration and innovation. Results also show that the nature of the innovative process and the typology of innovative activities performed by local firms play a key role in the relation between immigration and innovation. Resumenes ¿Cuál es el efecto de un aumento en la disponibilidad de capital humano debido a la inmigración cualificada en el desempeño en innovación de las economías receptoras? Este artículo investiga el impacto de los influjos de migración internacional cualificada en la innovación en los productos y los procesos de las empresas en zonas británicas del mercado de trabajo local, mediante la combinación de microdatos a nivel de empresa con la información de la fuerza laboral a nivel de zonas. El documento respalda las pruebas en favor de una relación de causalidad entre la inmigración y la innovación. Los resultados muestran también que la naturaleza del proceso innovador y la tipología de las actividades innovadoras realizadas por las empresas locales desempeñan un papel clave en la relación entre la inmigración y la innovación. Citing Literature Volume94, Issue4November 2015Pages 773-794 RelatedInformation