In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in
papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers …

An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation:
immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply …

We examine how the premature death of eminent life scientists alters the vitality of their
fields. While the flow of articles by collaborators into affected fields decreases after the death …

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized US
science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the United States, we …

NATIONAL BORDERS SEEM increasingly porous. Nearly 215 million persons now live in a
country where they were not born, so immigrants account for about 3 percent of the world's …

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 …

This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their
work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to …

International migration and innovation diffusion: an eclectic survey. Regional Studies. In the
new era of international mass migration, the role of highly skilled individuals in diffusing …

We examine the labor market effects of Secure Communities (SC), a police-based
immigration enforcement policy implemented in 2008–13. Using variation in implementation …

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 …