Immigration, Innovation, and the Geography of Growth.

Autor/inn/en	Arkolakis, Costas; Lee, Sun Kyoung; Peters, Michael
Institution	Centre for Economic Policy Research
Titel	Immigration, Innovation, and the Geography of Growth. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Einwanderung, Innovation und die Geografie des Wachstums.
Quelle	London (2026), 43 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CEPR discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research. 21668
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Ballungsraum; Einwanderung; Patent; Wirtschaftsgeografie; Wirtschaftswachstum; Qualifikationsstruktur; 19. Jahrhundert; 20. Jahrhundert; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Innovationsfähigkeit; Innovationspotenzial; Quote; Regionaler Vergleich; Regionalverteilung; Regulation; Einwanderer; Herkunftsland; USA
Abstract	"Between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million immigrants settled in the United States. We study how this migration wave affected innovation and growth. Using a newly constructed dataset linking individual census records to historical immigration records and the universe of US patents, we highlight a new channel through which immigrants contributed to growth: they disproportionately settled in urban innovation hubs. To quantify the aggregate and regional effects of this mass migration episode, we develop a new spatial growth model in which skilled workers have a comparative advantage in innovation and sort endogenously across space. We find that international arrivals after 1880 raised US income per capita by 8.2% by 1940. Removing the subsequent immigration restrictions of the 1920s would have raised income per capita by a further 1.7% by 2000. Immigrants' skill composition and their concentration in urban hubs are key drivers of these effects." The study refers to the period 1880-2000 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4