Immigration and innovation

A relevant question with implications for student visa policies is how many foreign students who build human capital in the United States actually remain in the country to use that capital in the U.S. labor market. Chapters 3, 4, and 6 explore the relationship between immigration and innovation at t...

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Published inMonthly Labor Review pp. 1 - 3
Main Author Fraser, Ryan
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor 01.04.2021
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Subjects
Asian students
Doctoral Students
Education
Education Work Relationship
Educational Attainment
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration law
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Evidence
Foreign students
Foreign Workers
Human Capital
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration law
Innovation
Intellectual property
Labor Conditions
Labor market
Migrants
Migration
Noncitizens
Ownership
Productivity
R&D
Research & development
Research & development expenditures
Students, Foreign
Workers
United States > US
India
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Summary:A relevant question with implications for student visa policies is how many foreign students who build human capital in the United States actually remain in the country to use that capital in the U.S. labor market. Chapters 3, 4, and 6 explore the relationship between immigration and innovation at the firm level. Because much of the high-skilled immigration to the United States occurs through the H-1B work visa program, which allows the admission of a limited number of immigrants with a college degree up to an annual cap, chapters 3 and 4 focus on the impact of those immigrants. Taking a different approach, J. David Brown et al. (chapter 6) examine immigrant-owned tech firms with data from the U.S. Census Bureau American Survey of Entrepreneurs. Since tech firms have relatively high rates of innovation and employ many foreign-born workers, the authors try to estimate the effect of immigrant ownership on innovation.
ISSN:0098-1818
1937-4658