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Immigration Lottery Design : Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
Pathak, Parag A. - 2020
In 2005, the U.S. Congress legislated that the H-1B visa program create 20,000 annual slots reserved for advanced-degree applicants. Since then, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has used visa allocation rules that comply with this legislation. Following a directive in the April...
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Coping with H-1B Shortages : Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2020
The United States' H-1B visa program, which allows private firms to hire highly skilled foreign workers, was so severely over-subscribed in the years since 2014 that H-1B status was distributed by lotteries to a subset of applicants. Using data on H-1B applications and on a range of outcomes for...
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms : Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk - 2014
We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm's outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...
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Human Capitalists
Eisfeldt, Andrea L.; Falato, Antonio; Xiaolan, Mindy Zhang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The widespread and growing use of equity-based compensation has transformed high-skilled labor from a pure labor input to a class of "human capitalists." We show that high-skilled labor earns substantial income in the form of equity claims to firms' future dividends and capital gains....
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Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus
Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate the economic consequences of immigration in a two-country, two-skill, overlapping-generations framework, where immigration, population, human and physical capital formation, and economic growth are endogenous variables. We go beyond extant literature by integrating physical capital...
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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA
Kuka, Elira - 2018
This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We obtain variation in the benefits of schooling from the enactment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in 2012, which provides work authorization and...
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that …
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
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