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(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated
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This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...
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sometimes not-- between the scientists and the engineers … macroeconomists were engineers trying to solve practical problems, macroeconomists have more recently focused on developing analytic …
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This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major …
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scientists and engineers without asking whether the educational system provides that supply response necessary for these … illustrate the path not taken, the paper considers specific programs that could increase the numbers of scientists and engineers …
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for scientists related to defense such as physicists and aeronautical engineers. Because of the higher wages, conventional … scientists and engineers even for firms not receiving federal support, government funding directly crowds out private inventive …
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engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers … establishment. The results suggest that the work of scientists and engineers in goods and services producing establishments is an … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …
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The questions addressed in this volume are motivated by the recognition that engineers play an important role in … detail at a specific manufacturing industry--firms that supply automakers--to gain insight into how engineers create … performed by engineers, making the auto supply chain an important context in which to study engineering and innovation …
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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 education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...
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engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the … market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on the allocation of engineers across a large fraction of Swedish … space and each firm has its own age-wage profile. I find that a majority of engineers have moderately high switching costs …
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