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A warm welcome to highly‐skilled migrants: how can municipal administrations play their part?
Author(s) -
Föbker Stefanie,
Temme Daniela,
Wiegandt ClausC.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12112
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , order (exchange) , economic geography , political science , business , economic growth , economics , ecology , finance , biology
The global competition for highly‐skilled professionals and their knowledge has grown over the past decades. Cities have increasingly become aware of the importance of highly‐skilled labour for their future development. The aim of our paper is to analyse urban policies towards highly‐skilled migrants. Our paper is based on empirical research in three G erman university cities, A achen, B onn and C ologne. Our results emphasize that there is a growing awareness of local policy‐makers concerning this topic. We found that the cities made efforts to create a welcoming culture in order to attract and retain highly‐skilled migrants. However, there are differences between our cities regarding their approaches to attract highly‐skilled migrants.