Ernest Miguelez

Ernest Miguelez is a research fellow (Chargé de Recherche) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to the GREThA – UMR CNRS 5113, University of Bordeaux. His research interests cover economic geography, innovation economics, migration, and intellectual property.
He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Econometrics, Statistics, and Spanish Economy of the University of Barcelona (January 2013 – supervisors: Rosina Moreno and Francesco Lissoni).
He is a research affiliate at the Regional Quantitative Analysis Research Group (AQR-IREA), external research fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and has been Early Career Editor of the journal Regional Studies (2015-2018).
He currently runs the TKC project, funded by the ANR, which includes a workshop series on ‘Migration, Globalisation, and the Knowledge Economy’.
For further information, please see: https://ernestmiguelez.com/

Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?
India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it creating potential providers of ‘knowledge remittances’ for the home country? Based on data on US immigrant inventors from India, this article investigates the rate and determinants of return migration.
