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

STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

previous literature. We distinguish between two types of migrants: labor and family migrants given their different labor market …. Controlling for the selective out-migration and endogeneity of labor supply, we find that labor out-migrants are positively … selected but family out-migrants are negatively selected. Furthermore, the findings underscore the importance of taking into …

through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by …

in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse … effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …