This paper contributes to the rapidly growing literature concerned with the potentially
substantial implications of international migration for economic development in developing …

We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative
data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on US firms and to approved US patents …

The US limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that
firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms …

Abstract Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA) has been extensively applied in studies of
energy consumption and energy-related emissions. Most have focused on the impacts of …

This chapter describes the link between skilled immigration to the United States and
innovation and entrepreneurship. Skilled immigrants to the United States, defined as those …

The globalization of work raises important questions related to the employment of workers
across geographies and how the complementarity or substitution of workers across country …

Visa policies to retain United States-trained STEM PhDs are of central importance to
national innovation and economic competitiveness. There is also growing interest in …

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship
and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in …

We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP),
signed by Switzerland and the EU in 1999. Using geocoded patent data, complemented by …

Technology licensing officers play an important role in the creation of university spinoffs.
Anecdotal data suggests that licensing officers make use of the representativeness heuristic …