A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … economy's human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or …

that no candidate will make immigration part of his or her vision for achieving higher rates of long-run economic growth … that after getting through these bullet points candidates will seek to change the subject. Immigration is a divisive issue … that most national politicians prefer to avoid. President Obama checked his immigration box by making a halfhearted call …

Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however, examine the … direct link between immigration and growth. And the evidence on the outcomes that the literature does examine (such as the … what we know about the relationship between immigration and growth. The canonical Solow model implies that a one …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and growth in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … immigration, we use 130 years of detailed data on migrations from foreign countries to US counties to isolate quasi … county in recent decades. We show immigration has a positive causal impact on innovation, measured as patenting of local …

Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however, examine the … direct link between immigration and growth. And the evidence on the outcomes that the literature does examine (such as the … what we know about the relationship between immigration and growth. The canonical Solow model implies that a one …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … immigration, we use 130 years of detailed data on migrations from foreign countries to US counties to isolate quasi … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … immigration, we use 130 years of detailed data on migrations from foreign countries to US counties to isolate quasi … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting …