Highly skilled workers play a central and starring role in today's knowledge economy.
Talented individuals make exceptional direct contributions—including breakthrough …

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss
labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater …

We study the impact of the sudden arrival of more than three million Syrian refugees in
Turkey on Turkish businesses. Our empirical methodology exploits the annual variation in …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of
service-producing firms in the UK Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs …

In this paper we analyze the impact of an increase in the local supply of immigrants on firms'
outcomes, allowing for heterogeneous effects across firms. Using micro-level data on French …

Highly skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce input into firms' productive
and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive …

We compare winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries,
matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on US firms, and to …

This article begins with an overview of the policy environment in the United States and
abroad for skilled immigration, with a particular focus on “supply-driven” versus “demand …

We study how access to high-skill labor affects the outcomes of start-up firms. We obtain
exogenous variation in firms' ability to access skilled labor by using win rates in H-1B visa …

Over the 1990s, the share of foreigners entering the US high-skill workforce grew rapidly.
This migration potentially had a significant effect on US workers, consumers and firms. To …