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- 30 Mar 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New US Ventures
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 07 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 22 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 18 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 23 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 05 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51739 October 3, 2016 Harvard Business Review Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship By: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
areas, but there are fewer success stories today. At the macro level, the profit squeeze is just hard.” The working paper was co-written by HBS doctoral student Innessa Colaiacovo; Margaret Dalton, an analyst at the Center for Economic... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 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
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Article
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the... View Details
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 103, no. 3 (May 2013): 193–197.
- 2020
- Chapter
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Immigrants; Networking; Advice; Entrepreneurs; Inventors; Start-up Employees; Venturing; Co-working; Agglomeration; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC." In The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in U.S. Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, edited by Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Immigrants; Networking; Advice; Entrepreneurs; Inventors; Start-up Employees; Venturing; Co-working; Agglomeration; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-078, January 2019.
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
School Professor William R. Kerr. “Nationalistic policies have gained strength all around the world,” Kerr says, pointing to Brexit in the UK and strains caused View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Kendall Smith
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the... View Details
Keywords: Vietnam; Vietnam War; Assimilation; Immigration; Refugees; Age; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Viet Nam
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Kendall Smith. "Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-044, January 2024.
- 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
Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Working Paper, February 2013.
- July 2015
- Article
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: Firms; Scientists; Engineers; Inventors; H-1B; Age; Employment; Immigration; United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. S1 (July 2015): S147–S186.