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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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Closing the Gates : Assessing Impacts of the Immigration Act of 1917
Ganguli, Ina; Withrow, Jennifer R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
'skill-based' immigration policy in an attempt to limit migration. We assess whether the Immigration Act had any measurable … into migration to the U.S. from Europe through Ellis Island, reducing migration from low literacy countries by 70 percent …
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Bound by Ancestors : Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Park, Ziho - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US establishment database and historical migration data, we find that …
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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Like an Ink Blot on Paper : Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
Spitzer, Yannay; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why were the poorer countries of the European periphery latecomers to the Age of Mass Migration? We test the diffusion … diffusion of migration networks. We propose a model of migration within a spatial network to formalize this hypothesis and to … validated by the data. The emerging picture is that Italian mass migration began in a few separate epicenters from which it …
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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration : Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students … Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration after students complete college: among the top 1,000 scorers on the exam …, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using …
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million …
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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
during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that …
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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … studies that focus on the United States to understand the effects of migration from poor to rich countries, our context is …
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