以下是Borjas和Dorn的一篇新的Working Paper,讨论的主题仍然是苏联解体之后,大量数学家进入美国学术市场对美国本土数学家的影响。因为话题相关,所用数据也一样,就不另发新帖了。
1 论文标题:COGNITIVE MOBILITY: LABOR MARKET RESPONSES TO SUPPLY SHOCKS IN THE SPACE OF IDEAS
2 作者信息:George J. Borjas, Kirk B. Doran
3 出处和链接:NBER Working Paper No. 18614,Issued in December 2012
4 摘要:
Knowledge producers who are conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to
supply and demand shocks by shifting their resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility
measures the transition from one location in idea space to another location in that space. This paper
examines the cognitive mobility flows unleashed by the influx of a large number of Soviet mathematicians
into the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Our analysis exploits the fact that the
influx of Soviet mathematicians into the American mathematics community was larger in some fields
than in others. The data reveal substantial cognitive mobility in response to the influx, with American
mathematicians moving away from, rather than moving to, fields that likely received large numbers
of Soviet émigrés. It appears that diminishing returns in specific research areas, rather than beneficial
human capital spillovers, dominated the cognitive mobility decisions of pre-existing knowledge producers.
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