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

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 …

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 …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

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 …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …