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Give me your wired and your highly skilled: measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders

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  • Carl Lin

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This paper links finance theory to labor economics in the context of migration and immigration policy. Using event analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the firm profits, in particular the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998 nearly doubled the available number of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in FY 1999. The empirical results show that top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive excess returns with the passage of the Act, while industries with little need for H-1B visas experienced no significant changes. Several robustness checks support the results.

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Paper provided by Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB) in its series Working Papers with number 2011/17.

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Length: 92 pages
Date of creation: 2011
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Handle: RePEc:ieb:wpaper:2011/9/doc2011-17

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Keywords: Skilled immigrants; immigration policy; employers; shareholders; event study; H-1B visa;

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  1. Five things economists know about immigration
    by Dylan Matthews in Ezra Klein's Wonkblog on 2013-01-29 14:30:26
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  1. Lin, Carl, 2012. "Less Myth, More Measurement: Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike," IZA Discussion Papers 6269, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Lin, Carl, 2011. "Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models," IZA Discussion Papers 6237, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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