High-skilled immigration and native task specialization in U.S. cities

Lin, Gary C.

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.06.004

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“…in OECD countries, Skilled migrants now comprise nearly 29% of all migrants [ 50 ]. Based on the previous research, the agglomeration effect of city size is heterogeneous for different groups, and the urban agglomeration effect has a stronger impact on the high-skilled labor force than that of the low-skilled one [ 51 , 52 , 53 ]. Therefore, the heterogeneity of the migrants is indeed a crucial consideration for analyzing the settlement intention of migrants [ 1 ].…”

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City Size and Permanent Settlement Intention: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Song

Zhu

Feng

2022

IJERPH

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The location choice and livelihoods of rural-urban migrants are critical to the sustainable development of cities. By using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) in 2017, this paper extant the Rosen–Roback’s model by adding factors of urban social network and air pollution to the function of the individual utility of migrants. Both the Probit Model and IV estimates imply evidence of an inverse U-shaped pattern of city size and migrants’ permanent settlement in urban China. This view proves that Chinese migrants like to settle permanently in large cities, but not mega-cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai. The internal mechanism is explained by the agglomeration economies and the crowing effect brought by city size. In mega-cities, the attractiveness of the city caused by wage premium cannot offset the combined repulsive force caused by the high housing price, bad urban social network, air pollution, and health deterioration. It is worth noting that air pollution has a significant negative impact on the settlement intention of migrants, such as health conditions and precipitation. Besides, there is heterogeneity among high-skilled migrants and low-skilled migrants in different city sizes. Our findings enhance the understanding of “Escape from megacities” in China and have implications for the reform of the housing security system and the exploration of the urbanization path.

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City Size and Permanent Settlement Intention: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Song

Zhu

Feng

2022

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“…In the case of HIEs, firms are mostly large in size, with the most advanced technology and production methods (Aldieri & Vinci, 2019 ; Poschke, 2018 ). Upgrading the export of products requires large capital investment and highly skilled workers (Lin, 2019 ), and cost (Acharyya & Jones, 2001 ). As in Aldieri et al ( 2018 ), an increase in export quality for HIEs could bring benefits to large exporting companies, with advances in technology and increased demand for skilled workers.…”

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Export Dynamics and Income Inequality: New Evidence on Export Quality

Nguyen

2022

Soc Indic Res

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Previous literature has highlighted the relationship between export diversification and income inequality. The present study attempts to explore the influence of export quality on income inequality. A global sample of 92 economies consisting of 30 low- and lower-middle-income economies (LMEs), 21 upper-middle-income economies (UMEs), and 41 high-income economies (HIEs) over the period 2002–2014, is collected to create a balanced set of panel data. Using econometric techniques for balanced panel data to deal with cross-sectional dependence, heteroscedasticity, and endogeneity, we first find that the effect of export quality is negative and significant on the Gini index pre-tax and pre-transfer in LMEs and UMEs, implying that export quality reduces income inequality. Second, export quality has a positive and significant impact on income inequality in HIEs. Our findings imply that different economic policies should be considered for dealing with income inequality among different income groups of economies.

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“…Verginer and Riccaboni (2021) show that the draw of "global cities" for the highly skilled generates local complementary networks that generate higher innovation as measured by citations and patents. In related work, Orrenius and Zavodny (2015), Shih (2016Shih ( , 2017, Bacolod andRangel (2017), andLin (2019) find complementarities between skilled immigrants and skilled native-born workers. As immigrants are more likely to be in STEM-related disciplines, they tend to specialize in quantitative skills and native-born then specialize (or upgrade) in jobs that emphasize and reward communications skills (Peri and Sparber 2020).…”

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The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

Bansak

Bender

Coon

2021

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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This chapter examines the link between skilled workers and innovation, and the political economy that affects this relationship. With a focus on the current state of research in this area, the chapter first summarizes the new evidence on the connections between skilled labor and innovation relating to knowledge development, entrepreneurship, teams, diversity, and brain drain. The second section discusses the possibility for reverse causalitynamely, that innovation can be a driver of the demand for high-skilled labor. In the following section, connections are made between public policies related to education systems, immigration, patent systems, intellectual property, public-private partnerships and amenities, and the possible effect on the level of skilled workers in various labor markets. The recent research is largely focused on the USA and OECD countries, and empirical evidence is provided using current data that corroborates the results of many of the reviewed studies. The final section lists resources for researchers aiming to move forward on the frontier of this line of research.

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High-skilled immigration and native task specialization in U.S. cities

Cited by 7 publications

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City Size and Permanent Settlement Intention: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

City Size and Permanent Settlement Intention: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Export Dynamics and Income Inequality: New Evidence on Export Quality

The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation

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