Dear NBER Economics of Education group,
Thanks for a great meeting on Wednesday of this week. Let's all thank
the authors for their excellent papers.
Please put November 14/15 in Chicago on your calendars for our next
program meeting. The Call for Papers for that meeting will go out at
the end of August.
I want to remind you of the ongoing Call for Papers for the High Skill
Immigration in the Global Economy conference. Submissions are due by
August 15, and it's a fantastic topic! I attach details below the
line.
All good wishes,
Caroline Hoxby
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CALL FOR PAPERS
High Skill Immigration in the Global Economy
The NBER is convening a conference on the determinants and economic
impact of high-skill immigration in science and engineering (S&E)
fields. The meeting will include presentations of original academic
research papers related to the role of high-skill immigration in
post-secondary educational attainment, labor market outcomes, and
innovation in S&E fields in the United States. The meeting, which is
supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be held in
Cambridge, MA on Friday, October 25 2013.
Research topics well-suited to this meeting include but are not limited to:
* How does immigration policy impact degree attainment in the
U.S. by foreign born individuals and natives? How does the
significant presence of foreign-born students in science and
engineering fields at U.S. universities impact field selection and
degree attainment by natives?
* How does immigration policy impact the flow (and retention of)
of immigrants to the U.S. in science and engineering fields? What
impact does this flow have for the level of wages and employment in
these sectors?
* To what extent are high-skilled immigration and off-shoring
interconnected? If U.S.-based firms are not able access a growing
supply of talented workers, are these firms more likely to shift
production overseas?
* How does high-skilled immigration affect productivity,
entrepreneurship and innovation? How do immigrants influence the
structure and organization of U.S. S&E firms or entrepreneurship?
* What factors impact country of origin and destination in the
global competition for high-skilled talent? How does the U.S.'s
employment-based immigration policy differ from other advanced
countries with skill-based immigration policies (such as Canada)? How
do these differences shape the quantity and composition of immigrant
inflows and/or their impacts on natives?
The list above is not intended to define the universe of topics for
this project, but is rather a starting point for new research
developments on the economic impact of high-skill immigration in
science and engineering (S&E) fields. Empirical papers or those
combining theory and empirics are preferred.
Authors who are interested in presenting a paper at this meeting
should upload a one-page abstract of their paper in a pdf file to the
following website, no later than August 15, 2013:
http://papers.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=HSIf13
Please share this call for papers with other researchers who might be
interested in this project, and contact William Kerr (wkerr_at_hbs.edu)
or Sarah Turner (sturner_at_virginia.edu) with any questions.
--
Caroline M. Hoxby
Scott & Donya Bommer Professor of Economics
Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution
Director, Economics of Education Program, National Bureau of Economic Research
Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
choxby_at_stanford.edu
Assistant: Kelly Carson
650-723-9678, carson_at_stanford.edu
mailing address:
at the department of economics:
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Landau Building, 579 Serra Mall
Stanford CA 94305
Received on Fri Jul 26 2013 - 05:09:08 EDT
