High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Nonroutine-Biased Technical Change
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Copyright 2018
ISBN 9780226525525

We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such immigrants to work in innovation, on the pace of non-routine-biased technical change, the polarization of employment opportunities, and the evolution of wage inequality since 1980.
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Copy CitationNir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu, High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences (University of Chicago Press, 2017), https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/high-skilled-migration-united-states-and-its-economic-consequences/high-skilled-immigration-stem-employment-and-nonroutine-biased-technical-change.
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We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the...