Immigrants - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54810 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2007
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In the Spotlight

time when a wave of cultivated European immigrants was arriving in New York and America. “La Guardia believed that it was very important to provide this audience with an enormously high quality of opera, and that it should be accessible,... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance

01 Dec 2016
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Air Time

immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” not enough to get my immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” Cited (photo by CL Media/iStock) (photo by CL Media/iStock) “About... View Details

2024
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Bounded Solidarity: The Role of Migrants in Shaping Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: Astrid Marinoni and Prithwiraj Choudhury

We explore a previously unexamined aspect of migrants’ contributions to local entrepreneurial ecosystems: the value created by cooperative interactions between migrants and locals in entrepreneurial ventures. Specifically, we analyze whether mixed teams composed of... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Immigration; Demographics; Groups and Teams

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04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

his most prominent and seemingly extreme stance: his proposal to crack down on illegal immigration. Yet, these Clinton voters may have jumped to the wrong conclusions. While Clinton voters assumed that Trump’s immigration policy drove... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican government oil revenue rose after... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The developed panel includes both emerging and advanced economies, and particular attention is devoted to the variation exploited in empirical tests. The elasticity of export... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Immigration; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Technology; United States

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03 Apr 2006
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Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

in waves. We are just seeing the aftereffects of one peak . . . this wave will be different from the one before . . . natural resources will play a strong role, and immigration will be an issue." The next step of globalization,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Portrait Project

Matthew Naunheim

hand. I, too, have begun to leave scars on the people and things I care about. In health care, the wounds are many, and they need fixing: An elderly Haitian immigrant without insurance. A smoker with throat cancer who refuses to quit. A... View Details

13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-007_e181fd00-4426-4db8-8f70-89b1b5054a8f.pdf January 2015 Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies International Migration and Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2020
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How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts

of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung immigrated to the United States when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She... View Details

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55160 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract— How does the appearance of a new... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2013
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Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012

elective course The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. A former editor of the Business History Review, McCraw was a prolific author. His other notable books include Prophet of Innovation (a biography of Joseph Schumpeter) and, most recently, The Founders and Finance (a... View Details

Keywords: obituary

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Matthew Puglisi

the uncensored story of his transition to life in America as a poor, English-challenged Sicilian immigrant shouldering the load of his widowed mother and four siblings. It wasn't the last time Dad's strength was required to hold a family... View Details

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Tina Chen

Six black suitcases. Carefully packed, re-packed, weighed, and re-weighed. Wrapped tightly with bright luggage belts. They contained everything we had to start life on the other side of the world. We were so excited and hopeful. Yet realities of the View Details

05 Jan 2017
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do displaced workers migrate to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements

General Foods, oversees a company that produces 35 varieties of cheeses, providing a welcome taste of home for immigrants from Central and South America, India, and the Middle East. (Published April 2014) View Details

Career Coach

Tricia Peralta

to help navigate US immigration concerns and provide a sounding board for folks trying to decide if they want to work in the US or elsewhere. Dana Farber Cancer Institute (Internship), The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and... View Details

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Shibani Joshi

I grew up as the eldest child of immigrant parents who chose to live out the American dream in the oddest of places, Oklahoma City. A great portion of my life was spent trying to live up to the expectations of my parents, molding my... View Details

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