Immigration - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2018
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America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 May 2020
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Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

2016
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

By: Gareth Olds

This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration

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08 Oct 2012
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The Immigrants Who Built America's Financial System

16 Jul 2010
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Indians immigrants boosting technological innovation in US

2013
Working Paper

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched 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... View Details

Keywords: H-1B; Firms; Scientists; Engineers; Inventors; Age; Employment; Competency and Skills; Immigration; United States

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August 2019
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Immigration Policy in Germany (B)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Robert Scherf

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12 Jun 2024
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The Political Reaction to Immigration

November 2015 (Revised November 2015)
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Immigration Policy in Germany

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

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25 Jul 2012
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Answers to Your Questions on Skilled Immigration

January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
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Chinese Restriction, Violence, and Exclusion in the United States

By: Tom Nicholas, Boyang Han and Tomas Rosales

Many early Chinese immigrants to the United States during the 1850s worked as traditional gold miners, but as gold mining declined in significance, an increasing number were employed as laborers for large scale construction projects such as railroads, roadways, and in... View Details

Keywords: Immigration Acts; Immigration; Labor; Jobs and Positions; Race; Social Issues; Laws and Statutes

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October 3, 2016
Article

Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

This article summarizes recent research on how immigrants contribute to the formation of U.S. start-ups and the traits of the businesses founded. View Details

Keywords: Networks; Demographics; Entrepreneurship

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29 Sep 2018
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As Washington ignores high-skill immigration debate, US suffers

26 Oct 2018
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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

07 Feb 2017
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How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness

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Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.

By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini

How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved... View Details

Keywords: Assimilation; Religious Organizations; Immigration; Religion; History; United States

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