Immigration Policy Levers for US Innovation and Startups

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the US immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key areas include adjustments to the allocation of permanent residency visas, adjustments to the H-1B visa program, and the creation of an immigrant startup visa

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Year of publication:	April 2020
Authors:	Kerr, Sari Pekkala
Other Persons:	Kerr, William R. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	USA \| United States \| Technologiepolitik \| Technology policy \| Migrationspolitik \| Immigration policy \| Unternehmensgründung \| Business start-up \| Migranten \| Migrants

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w27040
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w27040 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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