I study how access to foreign skilled workers affects corporate investment. Restrictions on high-skilled immigration …

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …

on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that migrants who are more educated tend to bring … results suggest that skill-based immigration policies are likely to result in more remittances. …

The paper examines the impact of immigration on innovation. We exploit an immigrant placement policy which took place … negative impact on innovations. Instead, our panel estimates suggest that immigration had no or even a positive impact on …

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic … communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration …

cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens … of the United States. -- immigration ; immigrant visas ; social stratification ; gender ; race ; Hispanic origin ; skin …

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic … communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration …

, the latter using estimates developed by DHS (2002), Passel (2002), and Costanzo et al. (2002). -- Illegal immigration … ; legal immigration ; administrative data ; survey data …