Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295439 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 05/13
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
This paper uses a unique survey to examine the nature and extent of knowledge flows that result from the international mobility of researchers whose initial education was in small island countries. Current migrants produce substantially more research than similar-skilled return migrants and non-migrants. Return migrants have no greater research impact than individuals who never migrate but are the main source of research knowledge transfer between international and local researchers. Our results contrast with previous claims in the literature that too few migrant researchers ever return home to have much impact, and that there is no productivity gain to researchers from migration.
Subjects: 
Diasporas
Knowledge networks
Scientific mobility
JEL: 
J6
O3
R1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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