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

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

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

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

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their settlements are significantly concentrated across cities and …

affect international development. -- International migration ; entrepreneurial ; political migrants ; talent mobility …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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 can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …