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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...

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Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872711

Occupational choice of high skilled immigrants in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that high-skilled immigrants with limited proficiency in English, or whose mother tongue is...

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Skill based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2012

Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534986

Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders

Lin, Carl - 2011

The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital

Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in … which they are actually employed. Moreover, it allows a distinction between the real contribution of migrants to innovation …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029

Are skills a constraint on firms? : new evidence from Russia

Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - 2012

find that there is some - albeit limited - evidence of firms using migrants to address high skill shortages. However, the … overwhelming majority of migrants are skilled or unskilled workers; a reflection of the low underlying rates of innovation and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675521

The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries

Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022

We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...

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