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The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship / Megan MacGarvie, Shulamit Kahn, Ina Ganguli.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- NBER conference report.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skilled labor--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Skilled labor.
- Students, Foreign--United States--Congresses.
- Students, Foreign.
- Foreign workers--United States--Congresses.
- Foreign workers.
- Immigrants--United States--Congresses.
- Immigrants.
- Technological innovations--Demographic aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Technological innovations.
- Science and industry--United States--Congresses.
- Science and industry.
- Entrepreneurship--United States--Congresses.
- Entrepreneurship.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--Congresses.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations, charts.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigration, there is a need for evidence on the economic impacts of immigrants on the STEM workforce and on innovation. Using new data and state-of-the-art empirical methods, this volume examines various aspects of the relationships between immigration, innovation, and entrepreneurship, including the effects of changes in the number of immigrants and their skill composition on the rate of innovation; the relationship between high-skilled immigration and entrepreneurship; and the differences between immigrant and native entrepreneurs. It presents new evidence on the postgraduation migration patterns of STEM doctoral recipients, in particular the likelihood these graduates will return to their home country. This volume also examines the role of the US higher education system and of US visa policy in attracting foreign students for graduate study and retaining them after graduation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Return Migrants’ Self- Selection: Evidence for Indian Inventors
- 2. Will the US Keep the Best and the Brightest (as Postdocs)? Career and Location Preferences of Foreign STEM PhDs
- 3. High- Skill Immigration, Innovation, and Creative Destruction
- 4. New Data and Facts on H- 1B Workers across Firms
- 5. Immigration and Invention: Does Language Matter?
- 6. Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the US High- Tech Sector
- 7. Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
- 8. Are Foreign STEM PhDs More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences, and Employment Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science and Engineering PhD Students
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Papers from a workshop organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research and held at Cambridge, MA, on 27 April 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226695761
- 022669576X
- OCLC:
- 1140121400
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