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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714167
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Open Borders
Kennan, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead … measured in efficiency units of labor. The estimated gains from removing immigration restrictions are huge. Using a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785612
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Peri, Giovanni; Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774298
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631698
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Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes: How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration
Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579899
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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
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821656
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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation, with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614944
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
intensive margin: the firms that began to lobby for immigration were those who were sensitive to H-1B policy changes and who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359896
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Book Translations as Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran; Sin, Isabelle - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207428
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, Dávid … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
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