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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor); … - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … subsequent national increase in skilled immigrants from these regions. -- Immigration ; innovation …

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Risk and return of US water transformation stocks over time and over bull and bear market conditions

Kavussanos, Manolis G.; Marcoulis, Stelios - 1994

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Co-movements between U.S. and UK stock prices : the role of macroeconomic information and time-varying conditional correelations

Aslanidis, Nektarios (contributor); … - 2008

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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008

In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants : 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D. (contributor); … - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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1.5 generation internal migration in the US : dispersion from states of immigration?

Ellis, Mark (contributor); Goodwin-White, Jamie (contributor) - 2006

"The issue of immigrant spatial concentration and the possibilities for immigrant dispersion through migration features in at least three interrelated debates about immigration. First, the ethnic enclave literature centers on the question of whether spatial concentration improves or harms the...

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Head-content or headcount? : Short-term skilled labour movements as a source of growth

Tani, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2006

This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows....

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First and second generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes : a comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2006

"The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy...

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Illegal migration, wages, and remittances : semi-parametric estimation of illegality effects

Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - 2009

We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of legal and illegal migration, and the resulting...

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