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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US

Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....

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Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and graduates. This paper revisits the estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that...

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by...

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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal

Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect … disappears once the analysis adjusts for such heterogeneity. As an example, the finding of immigrant-native complementarity … low-skilled workers ). More generally, we cannot reject the hypothesis that comparably skilled immigrant and native …

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