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100	1		_aPeri, Giovanni. _918419
245	1	0	_aForeign STEM Workers and Native Wages and Employment in U.S. Cities / _cGiovanni Peri, Kevin Y. Shih, Chad Sparber.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w20093
500			_aMay 2014.
520	3		_aScientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM workers) are fundamental inputs in scientific innovation and technological adoption, the main drivers of productivity growth in the U.S. In this paper we identify the effect of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities from 1990 to 2010. In order to identify a supply-driven and heterogeneous increase in STEM workers across U.S. cities, we use the distribution of foreign-born STEM workers in 1980 and exploit the introduction and variation of the H-1B visa program granting entry to foreign-born college educated (mainly STEM) workers. We find that H-1B-driven increases in STEM workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM workers increased housing rents for college graduates, which eroded part of their wage gains. Together, these results imply a significant effect of foreign STEM on total factor productivity growth in the average US city between 1990 and 2010.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
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538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aF22 - International Migration _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aJ61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aO33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aR10 - General _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aShih, Kevin Y.
700	1		_aSparber, Chad.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w20093.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w20093
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20093
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