Authors
Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, Christopher Parsons
Publication date
2017/8/2
Source
Annual Review of Economics
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
201-234
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Description
This article 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-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps in the literature that we hope will be tackled in the near future.
Scholar articles
SP Kerr, W Kerr, Ç Özden, C Parsons - Annual Review of Economics, 2017