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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23153 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23153 |
Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S. | |
John Bound; Gaurav Khanna; Nicolas Morales | |
发表日期 | 2017-02-13 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Over the 1990s, the share of foreigners entering the US high-skill workforce grew rapidly. This migration potentially had a significant effect on US workers, consumers and firms. To study these effects, we construct a general equilibrium model of the US economy and calibrate it using data from 1994 to 2001. Built into the model are positive effects high skilled immigrants have on innovation. Counterfactual simulations based on our model suggest that immigration increased the overall welfare of US natives, and had significant distributional consequences. In the absence of immigration, wages for US computer scientists would have been 2.6% to 5.1% higher and employment in computer science for US workers would have been 6.1% to 10.8% higher in 2001. On the other hand, complements in production benefited substantially from immigration, and immigration also lowered prices and raised the output of IT goods by between 1.9% and 2.5%, thus benefiting consumers. Finally, firms in the IT sector also earned substantially higher profits due to immigration. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Unemployment and Immigration |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23153 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580827 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John Bound,Gaurav Khanna,Nicolas Morales. Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S.. 2017. |
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