Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration

DIodato, D., Morrison, A. & Petralia, S. (2022). Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration. Journal of Economic Geography, 22(2), 477 - 498. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbab032
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More than 30 million people migrated to the USA between late-ninetieth and early-twentieth century, and thousands became inventors. Drawing on a novel dataset of immigrant inventors in the USA, we assess the city-level impact of immigrants' patenting and their contribution to the technological specialization of the receiving US regions between 1870 and 1940. Our results show that native inventors benefited from the inventive activity of immigrants. In addition, we show that the knowledge transferred by immigrants gave rise to new and previously not exiting technological fields in the US regions where immigrants moved to.
Item Type Article
Copyright holders © 2021 The Authors
Departments LSE > Academic Departments > Geography and Environment
DOI 10.1093/jeg/lbab032
Date Deposited 22 Apr 2022
Acceptance Date 13 Jul 2021
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114920

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