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Table 5 Ordinary least square (OLS) regressions of the probability of a migrant becoming an inventor from the time of migration until 2007, 1990–2007

From: Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden

 

Control: Other developed regions

1990–1997

1990–2007

1.1

1.2

2.1

2.2

Pat1

Pat2

Pat1

Pat2

EU-15 × 1994–1997

0.004**

− 0.001

  
 

(0.002)

(0.002)

  

EU-15 × 1994–2007

  

− 0.000

− 0.001

   

(0.001)

(0.001)

Age at migration

 

0.001***

 

0.001***

  

(0.000)

 

(0.000)

Age2 at migration

 

− 0.000***

 

− 0.000***

  

(0.000)

 

(0.000)

Female

 

− 0.005***

 

− 0.004***

  

(0.001)

 

(0.000)

Marriage

 

0.001

 

− 0.000

  

(0.001)

 

(0.000)

Children

 

− 0.001

 

− 0.001

  

(0.001)

 

(0.000)

Human capital

 

0.363***

 

0.020*

  

(0.128)

 

(0.012)

Year of immigration FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Region of origin FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

35,266

35,266

103,516

103,516

Adjusted R2

0.006

0.009

0.005

0.006

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Source: Statistics Sweden and CIRCLE data on inventors
  2. ***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05; *p < 0.1