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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers, Gujarati motel owners. Anyone who lives in an American city can see how immigrants tend to cluster in industries along ethnic lines. Is this because they are forced to by...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
- 22 Jan 2014
- News
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
- 08 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Changed the Geography of Innovation
- 21 Dec 2011
- News
How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Turbocharge U.S. Trade
- 2022
- Chapter
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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Keywords:
High-tech;
H1-B;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
The Long-Term Political Influence of Immigrants
- 05 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
- 2015
- Chapter
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a 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 understand it have...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Human Capital;
Immigration;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 115–152. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
with higher salaries. But new research indicates that although many tech firms do tend to favor employing younger workers, older native workers are not losing their jobs as a direct result of the immigrants being hired. "We don't find...
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- 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...
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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
- Working Paper
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of U.S. invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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Keywords:
Invention;
Innovation;
Startups;
High-tech;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-105, April 2020.
- 08 Oct 2012
- News
The Immigrants Who Built America's Financial System
- 16 Jul 2010
- News
Indians immigrants boosting technological innovation in US
- 07 Feb 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
Keywords:
by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
Wellesley College, herself an immigrant from Finland. “Immigrants as a group can have a dynamic effect on an economy” Kerr concludes that countries shutting the door on legal immigration are following the...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
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...
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Olds, Gareth. "Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-142, June 2016.
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
- November 2015 (Revised November 2015)
- Teaching Note
Immigration Policy in Germany
- 25 Jul 2012
- News