This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …

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

I study how access to foreign skilled workers affects corporate investment. Restrictions on high-skilled immigration … may induce firms to lower investment due to complementarity between skill and capital, and also to delay investment due to … leads to longer hiring delays, and for firms with the slack financial resources to otherwise pursue investment opportunities …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …