Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15.

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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15

Edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern

$60.00

ISBN: 978-0-226-26842-2

The 15th volume of Innovation Policy and the Economy is the first to focus on a single theme: high-skilled immigration to the United States. The first paper is the product of a long-term research effort on the impact of immigration to the United States of Russian mathematicians beginning around 1990 as the Soviet Union collapsed. The second describes how obtaining an undergraduate degree from a U.S. university can open an important pathway for immigrants to participate in the U.S. labor market in IT occupations. The third paper considers the changing nature of postdoctoral positions in...