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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...

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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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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

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...

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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy … reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …

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The Supply Side of Innovation : H-1B Visa Reforms & US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William Fabius - 2013

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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The Supply Side of Innovation : H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William - 2014

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

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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...

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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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