Do Migrants Transfer Productive Knowledge Back to Their Origin Countries?

Sexual risk behaviour among Surinamese and Antillean migrants travelling to their countries of origin.

OBJECTIVES To examine travel related sexual risk behaviour among migrants living in Amsterdam. METHODS People originating from Surinam (n = 798) and the Netherlands Antilles (n = 227) were recruited in order to study the heterosexual spread of HIV within ethnic groups. Log binomial regression was used to study determinants for homeland travel over the past 5 years; logistic regression was use...

Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence from Philippine Migrants’ Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

Why would migrant workers in rich countries ever return to poorer countries of origin? In a model of migration and household investment, with borrowing constraints and minimum investment thresholds, return migration occurs for either target-earnings or life-cycle reasons. This paper exploits a unique quasi-experiment to distinguish between these potential explanations for return migration. I ex...

Back to The Origin

value, Darwinian evolution is no different from the other epistemological entities mentioned above, in that one can fully understand evolution without ever having read a single line of Darwin's own writings. This is because what Darwin laid out as a theory has become superseded by the empirical confirmation and theoretical expansion of the concept of evolution — in particular, its mathematical ...

Do firms patent to protect or transfer knowledge in support of their innovations ?

This paper examines the role of patents in relation to the transfer and exchange of knowledge for corporate innovation. Studies on patents have mostly focused on the role of patents as an incentive for the creation of knowledge by offering a way to appropriate returns from innovation investments. However, an explanation for the relevance of patents for firms may be broader than reducing the pos...

R&D Internationalisation and Knowledge Transfer: Impact on MNEs and their Home Countries