economy – and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging ‘wider impacts' literature …

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 …

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 …

We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries … are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …

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

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …