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Title: Foreign scientists and engineers and economic growth in Canadian labor markets
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2015
ISBN: 1783476818, 9781783476817
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Abstract: Scientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians - STEM workers or scientists and engineers for brevity - are the drivers of scientific and technological innovation and adoption. Several studies (e.g. Rauch, 1993; Iranzo and Peri, 2009) have emphasized the importance of a concentration of college- educated workers in enhancing local productivity. An agglomeration of scientists and engineers generates agglomerations of productive industries (Ellison and Glaeser, 1999) that, in turn, create local externalities and virtuous cycles of innovation (Jaffe et al., 1993; Saxenian, 2002). The presence of STEM workers in a local economy, such as a city, has been considered a main driver of productivity growth and economic success.
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Authors: Peri, Giovanni; Shih, Kevin
Editors: Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Bakens, Jessie
Pages: 358-383
Volume Title: The Economics of Cultural Diversity
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publisher Location: Cheltenham, United Kingdom
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Other, Population Data Science
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