Migration and local innovation: Evidence from fine-grained data from OECD countries
利用1990-2014年19个OECD国家的专利数据和移民人口细粒度数据，研究发现本地移民比例每增加1个百分点，专利申请量增加2.5%，且该效应集中在城市化程度高、经济发达的地区，但在更大地理尺度上不显著。
Does the presence of migrants influence innovation at the local level? This paper answers this question using novel data containing fine-grained information on the migrant population and geo-coded data on patent locations for a large set of 19 OECD countries over the 1990–2014 period. We find that a one percentage point increase in the local migrant share increases patent applications by 2.5%. This effect is driven by more urbanised and economically developed localities, where innovation levels are already higher to begin with. However, this impact becomes insignificant when aggregating observations at larger geographical levels, suggesting that the effect of migration on innovation is concentrated in space and features high rates of spatial decay.