economy - and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging "wider impacts" literature …

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not … well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled … migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy …

survival. These effects are stronger for small, skill-intensive, and high-productivity firms that participate in the lottery …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries to successfully navigate this tangled web …