Career Patterns of Foreign-Born Scientist and Engineers, Trained and/or Working in U

CAREER PATTERNS OF FOREIGN-BORN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS,

TRAINED AND / OR WORKING IN THE U.S.

The Science and Engineering Workforce Project

of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

November 7, 2007

Richard Freeman, Paula Stephan, and John Trumpbour: Organizers

The National Bureau of Economic Research

1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3^rd floor, Cambridge, MA

Purpose: To explore various approaches and data for addressing research questions related to foreign talent. Examples of research questions include: stay and employment patterns of those trained in the U.S.; the degree to which training in the U.S. is productivity enhancing; the extent to which training in the U.S. links foreign-born trainees who leave the U.S. to U.S.-based networks established during training. Other questions regard the work experiences of those who receive training outside the U.S. and subsequently move to the U.S. and how their productivity and career outcomes compare to that of the foreign-born and U.S.-born educated in the U.S.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Evening before Workshop

7pm DINNER: with welcome/overview: Richard Freeman, Harvard University and NBER

LOCATION: Restaurant Dante, upstairs at the Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edward Land Boulevard, Cambridge

WEDNESDAY, November 7 Day of Workshop

8:00 Shuttle Van from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER

8:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 Trained in the United States: Chair and discussant: Mark Regets, SRS, NSF An Overview of Foreign-born S&E workers in the United States and their measurement

Patterns for those who stay:

Michael Finn, Oak Ridge: "Estimating Stay Rates for Foreign Recipients of U.S. Science and Engineering Degrees" (ppt slides with exhibits)

Patterns for those who leave:

Sunwoong Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Employment and Career Pattern of U.S.-trained Ph.D.'s in Korea

Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and Baoyun Qiao, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing Hiring Patterns of Chinese Universities

10:30 Trained in U.S.: Country of work unknown: Chair/Discussant, Reinhilde Veugelers, Katholieke Universiteit

Leuven and European Commission

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University: Using Published Dissertations to Identify Graduates' Countries of Origin

11:00 Location of birth unknown:

Bill Kerr, HBS, Harvard University: "The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors"

Lynne Zucker, UCLA and Michael Darby, UCLA: Location and Mobility of Star Scientists, Regional and National

Monica Gaughan, University of Georgia: Location of Birth Unknown: What we can learn by studying CVs

12:00 LUNCH

12:40 Trained outside the U.S./working in the U.S.: Benchmark data: Chair / Discussant: John Bound, University of Michigan and NBER

Sharon Levin, University of Missouri-St. Louis: "Foreign Talent in the American Scientific Workforce

1:00 Location of training unknown: working in U.S.

B. Lindsay Lowell, ISIM, Georgetown University: "H-1B Visa data

1:20 Intellectual Property and Immigration Backlog: Chair / Discussant: John Trumpbour, LWP, Harvard Law School

Vivek Wadhwa, Duke University and Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School: Immigrants and Returnees

Guillermina Jasso, New York University: Immigration and Stem Talent

2:20 The Postdoc Population working in U.S.

Alyson Reed, National Postdoctoral Association, What Can Be Learned from Surveying Postdocs and What We Hope to Learn from the NPA Proposed Survey?

Emilda Rivers, SRS, NSF How SRS's Proposed Postdoc Survey Can Provide Information on Birth and Training Origins of Postdocs

3:15 Discussion of other questions and possible methodologies:

Moderated by Michael Teitelbaum, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

3:45 Adjourn

CAREER PATTERNS OF FOREIGN-BORN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS,

TRAINED AND / OR WORKING IN THE U.S.

The Science and Engineering Workforce Project

of the National Bureau of Economic Research