This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The
survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various …

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

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

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 …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform in
activities likely to increase US productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first …

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 …

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 …

In this study, we examined China's Young Thousand Talents (YTT) program and evaluated
its effectiveness in recruiting elite expatriate scientists and in nurturing the returnee …

In the span of three years, Indonesia went from being the second worst to the top producer of
scientific journal articles in Southeast Asia. We investigate whether a transparent system of …

We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the
productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our …