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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …
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economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …
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economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …
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This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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immigration. -- immigration ; welfare spending …
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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
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some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …
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