postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- international migration ; effects of immigration …

. -- innovation ; immigration ; local labour market …We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce … characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range …

In this paper we analyse the impact of labour market conditions at immigration on school performance for the immigrants …

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …

effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high …-skilled migrants shows that an increase of 1 percentage point in the share of low-skilled migrants on the population reduces patent …

accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller … different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of …

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