Orazbayev, S;
(2017)
International knowledge flows and the administrative barriers to mobility.
(UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies Working Paper Series
2017/1).
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES): London, UK.
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Abstract
Face-to-face contact, even temporary one, helps researchers form personal ties and transfer tacit knowledge. The ability of researchers to colocate, including attendance at international conferences, workshops and seminars, is affected by the administrative barriers to international mobility. This paper uses a gravity-style empirical framework to examine the link between international knowledge flows and immigration policies. The results suggest that the paper walls erected by such policies reduce not just the mobility of individuals, but also the diffusion of knowledge. A moderately restrictive mobility barrier reduces incoming and outgoing knowledge flows by about 0.8-1.3% per year. The effect of knowledge-exporting country’s policy persists for nearly 10 years. There is also a short-term asymmetry: diffusion of recent knowledge is affected more by the immigration policy of a knowledgeexporter rather than a knowledge-importer.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | International knowledge flows and the administrative barriers to mobility |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/comparative-studies-em... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | diffusion of knowledge, academic mobility, immigration policy, visa policy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > Centre for Languages and Intl Educatn |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536349 |
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