Data and code for: "Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Massimo Anelli, Bocconi University; Gaetano Basso, Bank of Italy; Giuseppe Ippedico, University of California Davis; Giovanni Peri, University of California Davis

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Project Citation: 

Anelli, Massimo, Basso, Gaetano , Ippedico, Giuseppe, and Peri, Giovanni. Data and code for: “Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-03-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E157361V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This repository contains data and codes for the project titled "Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain", shortly summarized as followed:
Emigration of young, highly educated individuals may deprive origin countries of entrepreneurs. We identify exogenous variation in emigration from Italy by interacting past diaspora networks and current economic pull factors in destination countries. We find that a one standard deviation increase in the emigration rate generates a 4.9% decline in firms’ creation in the local labor market of origin. An accounting exercise decomposes the estimated effect into four components: subtraction of individuals with average entrepreneurial propensity, selection of young and college-educated among emigrants, negative spillovers on firm creation  and selection on unobservable characteristics positively associated with entrepreneurship.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Emigration; Brain Drain; Entrepreneurship; Demography; Innovation
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
      M13 New Firms; Startups
      O30 Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Italy
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2000 – 2014
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2015 – 2021
Universe:  View help for Universe Italian citizens emigrating abroad and Italian Firms
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; program source code

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source
  • AIRE - Anagrafe degli italiani residenti all'estero (Registry of Italians Leaving Abroad) maintained by the Italian Ministry of Interior.
  • Infocamere, the data service of the Italian Chambers of Commerce Association
  • INPS firm registry (Italian Social Security Data)
  • ISTAT (Italian Institute of Statistics) - Residency Registrations and Cancellations
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Italian Local Labor markets - Sistemi Locali del Lavoro, ISTAT (aka Commuting Zones)
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Local Labor Markets

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