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Title: High-Skilled Immigration and the Comparative Advantage of Foreign-Born Workers across US Occupation

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9780226525662

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Abstract: The increase in the demand for more skilled labor is among the most important changes in the US economy of the last forty years (Katz and Autor 1999). In the narrative crafted by Goldin and Katz (2008), technological advances and rising educational attainment are in something of a race, with the premium for skilled labor rising during periods, as in the 1980s and 1990s, when growth in the supply of college graduates is insufficient to meet the expanding demand for qualified labor. High-skilled immigration changes the nature of the competition between education and technology. Whereas in 1980 the foreign born . . .

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Authors: Hanson, Gordon, H; Liu, Chen

Editors: Hanson , Gordon, H; Kerr, William, R.; Turner, Sarah

Pages: 7-40

Volume Title: High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publisher Location: Chicago, Illinois, US

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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