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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers
Bound, John; Demirci, Murat; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts using administrative transaction data and a post-experiment...
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Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the US
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Stephan, Paula E.; Scellato, Giuseppe; Franzoni, Chiara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … brought by immigrants and respond to them trying to maximize their welfare. We present a common conceptual frame to organize … literature that has tried to isolate and identify a causal impact of immigrants on the local economies and to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951350
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Mitigating Long-run Health Effects of Drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...
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Immigrants' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous … identification strategies by considering immigrants distributed across municipalities by a refugee dispersal policy in place between … 1986 and 1998. We find that an increase in the supply of refugee-country immigrants pushed less educated native workers …
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