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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...
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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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Skill based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2012
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
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High-skilled immigration, domestic innovation, and global exchanges
Kerr, William R. - In: NBER reporter online (2013) 4, pp. 13-16
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …
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Intellectual property rights and diaspora knowledge networks
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2014
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Social status and public expectations : self-selection of high-skilled migrants
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia; Meckl, Jürgen - 2016
We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self …-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how … country-specific public expectations affect the migrants’ choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate …
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