Introduction / Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner -- High-skilled immigration and the comparative advantage of foreign-born workers across U.S.occupations / Gordon H. Hanson and Chen Liu -- The innovation activities of multinational enterprises and the demand for skilled worker,...

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological...

"The falling costs of collecting, storing, and processing data have allowed firms and governments to improve products and services. These same changes have also yielded databases containing detailed, individual-level data, raising privacy concerns. The Economics of Privacy summarizes the...