High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

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· University of Chicago Press
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About this ebook

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth, patterns of trade, education choices, and the earnings of workers with different types of skills. The chapters in this volume go beyond the traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of entry and exit, and the nature of comparative advantage across countries.

About the author

Gordon H. Hanson holds the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations and is director of the Center on Global Transformation at the University of California, San Diego. William R. Kerr is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Sarah Turner is the University Professor of Economics and Education and Souder Family Professor at the University of Virginia. All three are research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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