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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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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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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....

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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

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

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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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity …

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

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