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We use novel data on a representative sample of the U.S. population to examine how immigrants and second-generation immigrants compare to natives on non-cognitive character skills as measured by a common taxonomy of personality. Our findings reveal that immigrants and second-generation...
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Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has …
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on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in … an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship …
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …
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(supply-driven) independent skilled migrants at the same time that (demand-driven) employer-sponsored migration was expanded … migrants six months after taking up permanent residency. …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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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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