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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries / Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doran, Kirk.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20668.
- NBER working paper series no. w20668
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence from the universe of U.S. firms and the universe of H-1B visas using alternative estimation strategies is consistent with these results. Firms that hire H-1Bs grow faster and innovate more because they are different in other ways from firms that do not.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2014.
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