The supply side of innovation
Subtitle: H-1B visa reforms and US ethnic invention
By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Contributors: Lincoln, William F., 1940-; Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 09-005; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 09-005
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Description: This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find weak crowding-in effects or no effect at all for native patenting. Total invention increases with higher admission levels primarily through the direct contributions of ethnic inventors.
Notes: "December 2008"--Publisher's web site.

Includes bibliographical references.