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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171443
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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062368
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Research and policy issues in high-skilled international migration : a perspective with data from the United States
Regets, Mark C. - 2001
increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of "brain drain/brain gain", when both the … pattern of migration and its effects appear to be much more complex. However, our understanding of the effects of high skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403829
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Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration: A Perspective with Data from the United States
Regets, Mark C. - 2001
increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of ?brain drain/brain gain?, when both the … pattern of migration and its effects appear to be much more complex. However, our understanding of the effects of high skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262573
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Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468295
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The occupations and human capital of U.S. immigrants
Schoellman, Todd - 2009
This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523716
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … migration ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188
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Escaping the Holocaust : human and health capital of refugees to the United States, 1940-42
Blum, Matthias; Rei, Claudia - 2015
show this episode of European migration displays well-known features of migrant self-selection: early migrants were taller … than late migrants; a large migrant stock reduces migrant selectivity; and economic barriers to migration apply. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391560
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The Impact of International Students on US Graduate Education
Shih, Kevin - 2016
This paper examines whether international students affect domestic enrollment in graduate education, focusing on a unique boom and bust in international enrollment at US universities from 1995-2005. Increases in international students expand domestic enrollment. These expansions arise from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984052
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2021
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224745