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 …

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

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 …

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

skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants …

: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …