| Registro completo |
| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
|
| País: |
United States
|
| Título: |
Increasing Canada's International Competitiveness: Is There a Link between Skilled Immigrants and Innovation?
|
| Autores: |
Partridge, Jamie
Furtan, William Hartley
|
| Data: |
2008-05-05
|
| Ano: |
2008
|
| Palavras-chave: |
Canada
Endogenous technological change
Innovation
National ideas
Production function
Patents
Skilled immigrants
Labor and Human Capital
|
| Resumo: |
We use an augmented national ideas production function to examine skilled immigrants' impact on Canadian innovation at the provincial level. Empirically, this model was tested using Canadian data by province on innovation flow over an 11 year time period, where innovation flow is defined in terms of international (U.S.) patents. It was found that skilled immigrants, who are proficient in either English or French, have a significant and positive impact on innovation flow in their home province. Further, in examining skilled immigrants by source region, it was found that skilled immigrants from developed countries have the greatest impact on their home province's innovation flow. This is true of North American/European skilled immigrants for all skill-level categories including language proficiency, education, and immigrant class. For immigrants from developing countries, only highly educated Eastern Europeans and Low Income Asians classified as "Independent Workers" are both significant and positively related to their home province's innovation flow.
|
| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
|
| Idioma: |
Inglês
|
| Identificador: |
29915
http://purl.umn.edu/6504
|
| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida
Selected Paper
454620
|
| Formato: |
67
|
|
