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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | High-skilled immigration, STEM employment, and non-routine-biased technical change |
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| Institution | National Bureau of Economic research |
| Series Name | NBER Working Papers |
| Number | 23185 |
| Number of Pages | 27 |
| Date | 2017 |
| Abstract Text | 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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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.3386/w23185 |
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| Keywords | Immigration, STEM, directed technical change, job polarization |