unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to … able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among … engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high … degree, however, immigrants underperform natives, despite somewhat higher education. The gap is particularly large in the …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities … likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants …, patenting, commercializing or licensing patents, and publishing. In general, this advantage is explained by immigrants' higher …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees … inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1950 …