High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Non-Routine-Biased Technical Change / Nir Jaimovich, Henry E. Siu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaimovich, Nir.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Siu, Henry E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23185.

NBER working paper series no. w23185

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such immigrants to work in innovation, on the pace of non-routine-biased technical change, the polarization of employment opportunities, and the evolution of wage inequality since 1980.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2017.