changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and … entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance …

Economists have identified product entry and exit as a primary channel through which innovation impacts economic growth …. In this paper, we document how high-skill immigration affects product reallocation (entry and exit) at the firm level … innovation. These results shed light on the economic consequences of innovation by high-skill immigrant to the United States …

Immigration can expand labor supply and create greater competition for native-born workers. But immigrants may also … of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how …" than "job takers" and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth 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 …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and growth in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … county in recent decades. We show immigration has a positive causal impact on innovation, measured as patenting of local … identified causal impact of migration on innovation suggests the large inflow of foreign migrants into the US since 1965 may have …

earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the …

importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non …-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such … immigrants to work in innovation, on the pace of non-routine-biased technical change, the polarization of employment …

Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration … comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity, I find that restrictions on H-1B immigration caused foreign affiliate …

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …