Autori:
Venturini, Alessandra,
Fassio, Claudio,
Kalantaryan, SonaTitolo:
Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human CapitalPeriodico:
Università degli studi di Torino. Dip. Di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis. Working paper seriesAnno:
2015 - Volume:
10 - Fascicolo:
36 - Pagina iniziale:
1 - Pagina finale:
35The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor
Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the
United Kingdom – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which mainly employs a regional approach, we analyse ù
the link between migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of
migrants in the sector in which they are actually employed. Moreover, it allows a distinction between the real contribution
of migrants to innovation from possible inter-sectoral complementarities, which might as well foster innovation.
We control for the different components of human-capital, such as age, education and diversity of origin.
To address the possible endogeneity of migration we draw on an instrumental variable strategy originally devised by
Card (2001) and adapt it at the sector level The results show that overall migrants are relevant in all sectors, but
some important differences emerge across sectors: highlyeducated migrants show a larger positive effect in the high-tech
sectors, while middle- and loweducated ones are more relevant in manufacturing. The diversity of countries of origin
contributes to innovation only in the services sectors, confirming that in empirical analyses at the regional or national level the diversity measure might capture the complementarity between sectors rather than the contribution of different national skills.
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