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

survival. These effects are stronger for small, skill-intensive, and high-productivity firms that participate in the lottery …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries to successfully navigate this tangled web …

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 …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …

workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence …

difference-in-differences setup, we find that the number of migrants in the income range closely above the threshold more than … that the preferential tax scheme is highly effective in attracting more skilled migrants. …

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to …