Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 201-234 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Economics |
| Volume | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Aug 2017 |