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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data …

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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

average skilled immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but conditional on educational attainment of …

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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...

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Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier...

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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

Fryer, Roland; Pager, Devah; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...

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Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Fryer, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper describes a series of school-based randomized trials in over 250 urban schools designed to test the impact of financial incentives on student achievement. In stark contrast to simple economic models, our results suggest that student incentives increase achievement when the rewards are...

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Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that includes a test of mental function for...

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