Authors:

  • Prithwiraj Choudhury

Excerpt

Return migration and geography of innovation in MNEs: a natural experiment of knowledge production by local workers reporting to return migrants. Prithwiraj Choudhury, June 5, 2015, Paper. "I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant research and development (R&D) locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules..." Link