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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-05-13)
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 ...
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-05-13)
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils ...
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
(2013-05-31)
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 ...
High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
(Annual Reviews, 2017-04-04)
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration ...
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
(2016-08-22)
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quanti.es immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide ...
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Coethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures
(University of Chicago Press, 2021-03-01)
We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size ...