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Title: Essays on Globalization and Firm Performance

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: This dissertation consists of three essays broadly relating to globalization and firm performance. In the first essay, we address a relatively open question in the area of immigration: how do large inflows of highly skilled immigrants affect the rate of domestic innovation? We study this question in the context of the H-1B visa program, which is the primary temporary visa for work in the US. Immigrants constitute a large share of US inventors; foreign born workers account for 24 percent of scientists and engineers with bachelor's degrees and 47 percent of those with doctoral degrees.We find that larger inflows of highly skilled immigrants are associated with higher rates of innovation. This relationship is primarily driven by the contributions of the immigrants themselves. We find some tentative evidence for the crowding in of inventors who are US citizens and can reject the hypothesis that they are crowded out. These results suggest that there may be complementarities between foreign and domestic inventors...

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Authors: Lincoln, William F.

Institution: University of Michigan

Department: Economics

Advisor: James A. Levinsohn

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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