The economic effect of immigration policies: analyzing and simulating the U.S. case

Chassamboulli, Andri; Peri, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2020.103898

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“…As reviewed in the introduction, a significant empirical literature has examined H-1B system (see, e.g., Kerr and Lincoln, 2010;Kato and Sparber, 2013;Doran, Gelber, and Isen, 2014;Kerr, Kerr, and Lincoln, 2015;Peri, Shih, and Sparber, 2015;Amuedo-Dorantes and Furtado, 2017;Bound, Khanna, and Morales, 2017;Chassamboulli and Peri, 2018;Sparber, 2018, 2020;Glennon, 2020;Dimmock, Huang, and Weisbenner, 2021). Papers within this literature have commonly analyzed the consequences of the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 or the role of H-1Bs in the post-reform regime.…”

Section: Relation To Literature On the H-1b Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This research has addressed the impact of skilled immigration programs on students (Kato and Sparber, 2013;Amuedo-Dorantes and Furtado, 2017), workers (Peri, Shih, and Sparber, 2015;Mayda, Ortega, Peri, Shih, and Sparber, 2018), firms (Doran, Gelber, and Isen, 2014;Kerr, Kerr, and Lincoln, 2015;Mayda, Ortega, Peri, Shih, and Sparber, 2020;Glennon, 2020), innovation (Kerr and Lincoln, 2010;Dimmock, Huang, and Weisbenner, 2021), and more. Papers within this literature have analyzed the consequences of legislated H-1B reforms, and some have assessed of the value of the program as a whole (e.g., Bound, Khanna, and Morales, 2017;Chassamboulli and Peri, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms

Pathak¹,

Sönmez²

2020

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In 2005, the U.S. Congress legislated that the H-1B visa program create 20,000 annual slots reserved for advanced-degree applicants. Since then, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has used visa allocation rules that comply with this legislation. Following a directive in the April 2017 Buy American and Hire American Executive Order by President Trump, USCIS tweaked its H-1B visa allocation rule in 2019. While remaining in compliance with the legislation set forth in 2005, the USCIS estimated that the 2019 rule change would increase the number of higher-skill awards by more than 5,000 annually at the expense of lower-skill awards. The rule change was explicitly engineered for this objective. In this paper we characterize all visa allocation rules that comply with the 2005 legislation and use this framework to analyze the rules that have been deployed in the interim. Despite specifying rigid caps, we show that the legislation permits a range of rules that can change the number of high-skill awards by as many as 14,000 in an average year. Of all rules that comply with the legislation, the 2019 rule adopted by the Trump administration maximizes the rate of high-skill awards and minimizes the rate of low-skill awards. However, two previous and relatively unknown changes to the H-1B visa allocation rule resulted in more substantial changes to this distribution. These earlier reforms, however, were motivated by logistical considerations, potentially without understanding of their distributional consequences.

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Section: Relation To Literature On the H-1b Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms

Pathak¹,

Sönmez²

2020

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“…If firms train to save on future hiring costs, it is thus natural to expect that firms will lower their provision of training when the availability of skilled workers in the labour market is greater (Blatter et al, 2016). In turn, we expect that open borders decrease labour market tightness (see, e.g., Chassamboulli & Peri, 2020). This decrease, eases firms' search of skilled workers, which in turn lowers hiring costs, and should thus reduce the training provision of firms.…”

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Keep It Up Switzerland! Four Empirical Studies on Dual Vocational Education and Training

Oswald-Egg

2022

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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I thank my co-authors -Ursula Renold, Michael Siegenthaler, Thomas Bolli and Ladina Rageth -for their collaboration, their knowledge sharing and their patience. In addition, I thank my inspiring, encouraging and supportive team members with whom I had the pleasure to work and grow. Special thanks go to Thomas Bolli for challenging me to think more like an economist and for explaining econometrics in an understandable way, to Ladina Rageth for being a wonderful office mate, to Katie Caves for productive discussions and language consultations, and to Johanna Bolli-Kemper, Filippo Pusterla, Aranya Sritharan and Silvia Walter for sharing their knowledge, templates and (personal) experiences with me. I also thank Natalie Reid for teaching me how to write articles.Last but certainly not least, I thank my family and friends for their invaluable support and encouragement over the years. This experience would not have ended well without my family. I am eternally grateful to my parents, Maria Esther Egg Orihuela and Edwin Egg, and my sister Alexandra Hofmann for believing in me, pushing me to succeed and supporting me tremendously and unconditionally in every possible way. My husband, Lorenz Oswald, has been my rock in the ups and downs of this adventure. Thank you for being my safe haven, for your truly kind heart, and for taking over so many of my duties and not complaining once -I am forever in your debt! I cannot forget my two wonderful sons, Rafael and Tobias. Thank you for distracting me with your joyful characters, reminding me constantly that life is still happening and for demanding your fair share of my time so I did not miss out on too much of your development. To all my friends, thank you for your friendship and for understanding my time shortage. I am not listing all of your names here, but you are always on my mind.

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“…A strand of the literature investigates the role of immigration policy on the socio-economic performance of immigrants in the destination country, especially by empirically looking at a causal impact, and the US context (Kerr & Lincoln, 2010 ; Kato & Sparber, 2013 ; Pope, 2016 ; Shih, 2016 ; Mayda et al, 2018 ; Steigleder & Sparber, 2017 ; Clemens et al, 2018 ; Chassamboulli & Peri, 2020 ). However, these papers do not directly investigate the relationship between the composition of flows and the type of admission policy.…”

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“…The policy is one of the determinants influencing the conditions of entry through specific immigration channels and the type of immigrants attracted to each destination. For this reason, the composition of immigrants is considered itself equilibrium outcome of these policies (Chassamboulli & Peri, 2020 ). Specifically, selective-immigration policies may act directly on selection by admitting only certain groups, but also indirectly by marking migration as costly for some immigrants than for others (Biavaschi & Elsner, 2013 ).…”

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The influence of skill-based policies on the immigrant selection process

Macaluso

2022

Econ Polit

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Understanding the type of immigration flow that maximises the expected economic benefits in the destination countries is one of the main debated topics both in the economic literature and in policy agendas worldwide. In recent years, governments have developed regulations of migration flows by adopting some form of selective immigration policy based on either human capital criteria or skill needs. Admission policies in the destination countries are likely to affect the direction and magnitude of selection as well as the socio-economic performance of immigrants. However, the relationship between quality-selective policy and immigrants’ skill composition remains largely unexplored. This paper aims to survey the existing literature on how selective-immigration policies shape the characteristics of immigrants from the receiving-country perspective. First, it introduces the main route of admissions and the theoretical models to understand how the direction of selection works; second, it discusses the theoretical models; third, it reviews the empirical works. A final concluding section briefly points out the actual findings and future avenues of work.

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The economic effect of immigration policies: analyzing and simulating the U.S. case

Cited by 23 publications

References 26 publications

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms

Keep It Up Switzerland! Four Empirical Studies on Dual Vocational Education and Training

The influence of skill-based policies on the immigrant selection process

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