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We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer … specifications find rising overall employment of skilled workers with increased skilled immigrant employment by firm. Employment …
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The ethnic composition of US scientists and engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than previously...
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This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...
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This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...
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exploit exogenous changes in US immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less … developed economies is facilitated by employment gains, while more advanced economies experience sharper increases in labor …
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The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...
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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United … to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high … services abroad on language skills at immigration trace back directly to migrants' participation in language courses, revealing …
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