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Title: High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Routine-Biased Technical Change

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of immigrants to work in innovation, for the pace of routine-biased technical change, the polarization of employment opportunities, and the evolution of wage inequality since 1980.

Url: http://www.nirjaimovich.com/assets/immigration20160218.pdf

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Authors: Jaimovich, Nir; Siu, Henry E

Publisher: University of Southern California, University of British Columbia, and NBER

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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