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Immigration and Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists "Bring" to the United States?
- Source :
- Journal of Labor Economics; 2015 Supplement, Vol. 33, pS257-S288, 32p, 4 Charts, 6 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper examines how high-skilled immigrants contribute to knowledge diffusion using a rich data set 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 United States, 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RUSSIANS
SCIENTISTS
IMMIGRANTS
CITATION analysis
INFORMATION dissemination
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0734306X
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 103651700
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/679741