Séminaire doctorants – BSE

 

We investigate the impact of dedicated researcher visas, which France introduced in 1998 and still maintains, on the careers of foreign STEM PhD graduates. These visas, which come with a renewable residence permit, apply exclusively to immigrants from outside the European Union, who do not enjoy of the European freedom of movement rights. This creates a quasi-experimental setting that we exploit to test whether the researcher visa affected positively the stay rate of non-EU PhD graduates, relative to EU ones, based on information we obtain from their post-doc scientific publications. We do not observe a significant increase in stay rates in the years immediately following graduation. However, the effect becomes pronounced within a 5 to 10-year window post-graduation, particularly when comparing foreign PhD students from Africa to their French counterparts.

 

Andriy Romanyuk – Université de Bordeaux & Università dell’Insubria
Alberto Corsini – IPP CSIC – Spanish National Research Council
Francesco Lissoni –  Université de Bordeaux & Università Cattolica