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  • 27 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

applicants hold a bachelor's degree or higher and there are minimum salaries that must be met for positions. Visas are requested by the employer for a specific individual. Microsoft, for example, is the lead actor when it makes an H-1B... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

principally relies on employers to select skilled immigrants through programs like the H-1B visa. “There are many pros and cons for each route, with the employer-based approach allowing firms to find candidates they really want and also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

they found further evidence to bear out those general findings. For the past two decades, firms have lobbied to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas, which allow companies to offer jobs to skilled foreign workers. Back in the late 1990s,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 22 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

employment structures within 319 large employer firms and top patenting firms during the period between 1995 and 2008. Many firms bring in immigrants through the firm-sponsored H-1B visa, the largest program for temporary skilled... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigration in the United States. For example, even though advocates often use examples like Brin to argue for expanding the H-1B program, which is used for employment-based immigration by adults, the Google founder actually came to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Chad Sparber looked at changes in applications to U.S. colleges before and after the reduction in the annual quota of H-1B visas that took effect in 2003. (The H-1B visa is the United States’ largest visa... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

associated with entering the political process help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

and Rakesh Khurana Harvard Business Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are driven by firms themselves (e.g., the H-1B... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become available. This paper discusses the evidence that has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

find significant evidence for the idea that barriers to entry induce persistence in lobbying. The existence of these costs is further confirmed in studying how firms responded to a particular policy change: the expiration of legislation relating to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs affect firms' responses to policy changes. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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