We address the fundamental yet long overdue question that U.S. immigration policies hinge on: “How big is the H-1B specialty workforce?” During the past decade, the H-1B specialty visa annually admitted between 125,000 and 155,000 skilled foreign workers for a stay of up to six years,...

This study evaluates the economic benefit that the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) brings to the United States, including decreased spending on administration and increased tourism. To capture the “neteffect” of VWP due to increased tourism, this study conducts a semi-experimental evaluation by...

This study contributes to the current understanding of what drives physicians to practice in rural areas by analyzing new, comprehensive survey data of practicing physicians in the United States. This research confirmed that rural origin is an important and reliable predictor for rural practice...

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio-demographic policy changes, this cohort of...

The goal of this study is to improve the understanding toward the immigration population in labor market in the Washington MSA, to reveal their strategic strengths and weaknesses, and to provide insights and evidence for more efficient immigration policy. Examination on the flow and stock data...

This study evaluates the economic benefit that the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) brings to the United States, including increased tourist-business trips and reduced spending on visa control. Administered by Depart of Homeland Security (DHS), VWP enables participating country citizens to travel in...

This chapter aims at an overall portrait of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. using the most update data and information, identifying relevant literature and research sources, filling in the issues of China-born immigrants in the U.S. that the previous literature hasn’t mentioned, as well as...

This working paper highlights two major findings regarding the DC metro area’s immigrant population. The first finding is that the region’s foreign-born population is substantially different from its native born counterpart in many aspects. Overall, the foreign-born population in the region...

This research reveals Washington Metropolitan Area's competitiveness by studying two groups of students: international students and foreign-born students. An international student is an individual who is in higher education in the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa, and a foreign-born student is an...

This report takes an innovative approach to the investigation the foreign-born population in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area (WMA): it distinguishes (1) the immigrant (and nonimmigrant) flows to the area (by examining the annual snapshot data provided by Department of Homeland Security...