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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention / William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerr, William R.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15768.
- NBER working paper series no. w15768
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Supply Side of Innovation
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting. We are able to rule out displacement effects, and small crowding-in effects may exist. Total SE employment and invention increases with higher admissions primarily through direct contributions of immigrants.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2010.
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