Dear Labor Studies Program Members:
Next fall, instead of our October program meeting, the Labor Studies
program will be sponsoring a conference on the determinants and
economic impact of high-skill immigration in science and engineering
(S&E) fields. The meeting will include 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.
This meeting will be part of a broader NBER project on high-skill
immigration that has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
and that is being directed by Bill Kerr and Sarah Turner. The
meeting will be held in Cambridge, MA on Friday, October 25
2013. All LS program members are welcome.
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 July 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. Thank you.
David
Received on Mon Jun 17 2013 - 10:07:05 EDT
