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- 08 Mar 2017
- News
H1B visa squeeze threatens US tech leadership
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
insurance expenditure is approximately 1.9. Overall, our results suggest that UI has a beneficial effect on the economy by decreasing its sensitivity to shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51410... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50365 Taxation, Corruption, and Growth By: Aghion, Philippe, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2011
- News
How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Turbocharge U.S. Trade
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012 By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
The ‘Great Resignation’ Started Long Ago
- 01 Feb 2019
- News
The Gift of Global Talent
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
Visa Restrictions Will Worsen The Post-Covid Recession
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- News
The UK Says It Loves Immigrants. Will Immigrants Believe It?
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne