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 …

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not … well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled … migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We discuss points of strain in the current system and potential policy …

workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence …

survival. These effects are stronger for small, skill-intensive, and high-productivity firms that participate in the lottery …

’s innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration on the skill composition of immigrants …

In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an … they are living. Many cities are facing a higher rate of brain drain, as a consequence of the quality of life and the low …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor …