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 …
J Hunt - Journal of Labor Economics, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …
CV Fry, J Lynham, S Tran - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …
P Gaule, M Piacentini - Research Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …