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Are Immigrants the Best and Brightest U.S. Engineers?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2014
Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
discourages US students from going on in S&E, but which still has sufficient rewards to attract large immigrant flows …
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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
Michaels, Guy - 2013
We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the...
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Multinational Corporations, Transfer Prices, and Taxes : Evidence from the U.S. Petroleum Industry
Bernard, Jean-Thomas - 2010
Economic research on transfer-pricing behavior by multinational corporadons has emphasized theoretical modeling and institutional description. This paper presents the fiit systematic empirical analysis of transfer prices, using data from the petroleum industry. On the basis of oil imported into...
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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production : Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2016
This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating impacts on domestic supply of oil and natural gas arising from changes in the tax treatment of oil and gas production. It corrects a downward bias when the ratio of aggregate tax expenditures to domestic production is used to measure the...
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The Unwavering Ses Achievement Gap : Trends in U.S. Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2019
Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational achievement gaps by socio-economic status (SES). Using intertemporally linked assessments from NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA, we trace the achievement of U.S. student...
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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...
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The Homecoming of American College Women : The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2021
Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor%u2019s degree, but were 39 … at first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students …
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2023
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …
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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2014
While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...
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