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Title: Immigration Policy as Industrial Policy
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the 1990 Immigration Act on the size and nationalorigin composition of immigration to the United States as well as its effects on both the level and composition of U.S. innovation. We exploit a change in immigration law that more than doubled the number of permanent visas for high-skilled immigrants beginning in 1992 and expanded temporary work visas for similar workers to show that this law benefited mainly college-educated Indian immigrants. We use a Bartikstyle shift-share instrument to show that increased Indian immigration led to more per capita patenting among both ethnically Indian and non-Indian inventors and shifted the composition of patenting towards medicine-related fields. We also analyze how recently-imposed barriers to Indian immigrants may be limiting innovation today. capita patenting among both ethnically Indian and non-Indian inventors and shifted the composition of patenting towards medicine-related fields. We also analyze how recently-imposed barriers to Indian immigrants may be limiting innovation today.
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Authors: Martino, Daniel Di; Hartley, Jonathan S.; Kontz, Christian
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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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