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Skilled Immigration in Developed Economies

Crown, Daniel Lee
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4624-7688
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556786649496351

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics.
The migration of highly skilled workers has risen substantially in recent decades. However, there is still considerable debate among policymakers regarding the impact of skilled migrants on domestic economies. The three essays in this dissertation seek to fill this gap by examining the impact of skilled immigration policies on the productivity of foreign-born doctorates, the impact of skilled migrants on the labor market opportunities for native workers, and the contribution of skilled migrants to regional innovation. The first chapter estimates the impact of obtaining United States citizenship on the wages and research productivity of foreign-born doctorates. My analysis uses administrative data from a longitudinal survey that contains detailed information on individual level characteristics such as wage, citizenship status, and productivity outcomes for foreign-born doctoral recipients from U.S. institutions from 1993-2013. Using an individual fixed effects empirical strategy, I compare wages and outcomes for a given individual, before and after an individual obtains U.S. citizenship. The results show that attaining U.S. citizenship increases the wages of foreign-born doctorates. Moreover, citizenship increases the research productivity of foreign-born doctorates employed in academia, as measured by the number of academic journal articles published, and presented at professional conferences. The second chapter estimates the impact of a skilled immigration visa policy in Australia on the labor market outcomes of native Australian workers. This essay uses a longitudinal individual-level longitudinal dataset containing demographic and labor market characteristics of native workers, as well as administrative data from the full population of approved Temporary Work Skilled Visa applications. The empirical framework uses a fixed effects instrumental variable identification strategy to isolate the causal relationship between the presence of skilled immigrants and the labor market outcomes of native workers. Findings indicate that the visa program had a positive impact on the wages of native workers, and resulted in native workers specializing in occupations that utilize a greater intensity of cognitive and communication skills. The third chapter examines the contribution of foreign-born graduates to regional innovation outcomes. I study an Australian skilled immigration visa policy that grants temporary residence to foreign-born graduates of an Australian university. The analysis uses data from the full population of approved Temporary Graduate visa applications and a longitudinal dataset of intellectual property right counts at the regional level. The findings indicate that permitting skilled foreign-born graduates additional residency rights post-graduation increases the production of patents, but no impact on the number of trademarks or copyrights.
Mark Partridge (Advisor)
Joyce Chen (Committee Member)
Abdoul Sam (Committee Member)
Alessandra Faggian (Committee Member)
149 p.
Economics; Labor Economics; Regional Studies

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  • Crown, D. L. (2019). Skilled Immigration in Developed Economies [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556786649496351

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Crown, Daniel. Skilled Immigration in Developed Economies. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556786649496351.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Crown, Daniel. "Skilled Immigration in Developed Economies." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1556786649496351

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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