The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and
brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population …

How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the
question: lobbying by firms. Estimating a binary choice model of firm behavior, we find …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of US innovation and
entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of US workers in these fields …

This article reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-
driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that …

This article provides an overview of future directions for research related to refugee
entrepreneurship. It puts forward key concepts, explores the relations within the current …

In this review, I integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how the “geographic
mobility” of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on …

Migrant scientists outperform domestic scientists. The result persists after instrumenting
migration for reasons of work or study with migration in childhood to minimize the effect of …

This article reports the results of a national survey that estimates the rate of immigrant
entrepreneurship in a representative sample of high-impact firms in high-technology …

Population growth is one of the major problems facing the world today because it affects the
patterns of sustainable economic growth. The economic phenomenon to be explained in this …

There is growing concern that the innovation system's ability to create wealth and attain
social benefit is declining in effectiveness. This article explores the reasons for this decline …