Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204741 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
SITE Working Paper No. 30
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper examines how high-skilled immigrants contribute to knowledge diffusion using a rich dataset of Russian scientists and US citations to Soviet-era publications. Analysis of a panel of US cities and scientific fields shows that citations to Soviet-era work increased significantly with the arrival of immigrants. A difference-in-differences analysis with matched paper-pairs also shows that after Russian scientists moved to the US, citations to their Soviet-era papers increased relative to control papers. Both strategies reveal scientific field-specific effects. Ideas in high-impact papers and papers previously accessible to US scientists were the most likely to "spill over" to natives.
Subjects: 
high skill immigration
citations
innovation
Russia
JEL: 
J40
J61
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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