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Innovation and Immigration – Insights from a Placement Policy

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  • Vera Jahn

    (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

  • Max Friedrich Steinhardt

    (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

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The paper examines the impact of immigration on innovation. We exploit an immigrant placement policy which took place during the early nineties in Germany when large numbers of so called ethnic Germans entered the country. This allows us to overcome the potential bias of endogenous location decisions and to estimate how regional inflows of ethnic Germans affected patent applications over time. Although the majority of ethnic German inflows was unskilled, we do not find any evidence of a negative impact on innovations. Instead, our panel estimates suggest that immigration had no or even a positive impact on innovations.

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  • Vera Jahn & Max Friedrich Steinhardt, 2016. "Innovation and Immigration – Insights from a Placement Policy," Working Paper 164/2016, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:vhsuwp:2016_164
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    1. Massimiliano Bratti & Luca De Benedictis & Gianluca Santoni, 2020. "Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(2), pages 249-272, March.
    2. Olof Ejermo & Yannu Zheng, 2018. "Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden," IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-25, December.
    3. Katharina Candel-Haug & Alexander Cuntz & Oliver Falck, 2018. "Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness: Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country," WIPO Economic Research Working Papers 52, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division.
    4. Rania Gihleb & Osea Giuntella & Luca Stella, 2022. "Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers," NBER Working Papers 30473, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Alexander M. Danzer & Carsten Feuerbaum & Fabian Gaessler, 2020. "Labor Supply and Automation Innovation," Working Papers 198, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE).
    6. Wei, Hao & Yuan, Ran & Zhao, Laixun, 2020. "International talent inflow and R&D investment: Firm-level evidence from China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 32-42.
    7. Melissa Bantle & Matthias Muijs, 2018. "A new price test in geographic market definition – an application to german retail gasoline market," Working Paper 180/2018, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
    8. Klaus B. Beckmann, 2017. "Bounded rationality in differential games," Working Paper 178/2017, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.

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    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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