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Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William; Özden, Ça lar; Parsons, Christopher
Annual review of economics, 01/2017, Volume: 9, Issue: 1Journal Article
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.
