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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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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 …
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survival. These effects are stronger for small, skill-intensive, and high-productivity firms that participate in the lottery …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348305
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584896
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565661
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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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 …
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