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The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for Stem Phds : Who Leaves and Why
Kahn, Shulamit - 2018
This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909130
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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs : U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign it Workers
Bound, John - 2014
The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047009
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding US dominance in S&E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers: (1) The U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232040
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Star Scientists, Institutions, and the Entry of Japanese Biotechnology Enterprises
Darby, Michael R.; Zucker, Lynne G. - 2021
industry. Comparing Japan and the U.S., the structure of the science appears broadly similar, but the organization of the … existing firms (NBSs). We report pooled poisson regression estimates of the relation of NBE births in Japan to top-producing is … at work in Japan and America, stars in Japan induce entry of significantly fewer NBEs than in the U.S. and preexisting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230186
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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries Over 25 Years
Michaels, Guy - 2010
(with little effect on low educated workers performing manual non-routine tasks). Using industry level data on the US, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141845
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Women and Stem
Kahn, Shulamit - 2017
Researchers from economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines have studied the persistent under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue that women's under-representation is concentrated in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953976
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High-Skilled Immigration, Stem Employment, and Non-Routine-Biased Technical Change
Jaimovich, Nir - 2017
We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962715
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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
Azoulay, Pierre - 2016
We study the extent to which eminent scientists shape the vitality of their areas of scientific inquiry by examining entry rates into the subfields of 452 academic life scientists who pass away prematurely. Consistent with previous research, the flow of articles by collaborators into affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002678
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The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function : Evidence from the Mit Department of Biology for 1970-2000
Conti, Annamaria - 2014
Considerable attention has been focused, in recent years, on the role that graduate and postdoc students play in the production of academic knowledge. Using data from the MIT Department of Biology for the period 1970-2000, we analyze the evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055505
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The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners : Evidence from Star Scientists
Moretti, Enrico - 2015
Using data on the universe of U.S. patents filed between 1976 and 2010, we quantify how sensitive is migration by star scientist to changes in personal and business tax differentials across states. We uncover large, stable, and precisely estimated effects of personal and corporate taxes on star...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023681