TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jaimovich, Nir
AU  - Siu, Henry E
TI  - High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Non-Routine-Biased Technical Change
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23185
PY  - 2017
Y2  - February 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23185
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23185
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23185.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nir Jaimovich
Department of Economics
University of Zurich
Office: SOF H-16
Zurich, Switzerland
E-Mail: nir.jaimovich@uzh.ch

Henry E. Siu
Vancouver School of Economics
University of British Columbia
6000 Iona Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T 1L4
CANADA
E-Mail: hankman@mail.ubc.ca
M1  - published as Nir Jaimovich, Henry E. Siu. "High-Skilled Immigration, STEM Employment, and Nonroutine-Biased Technical Change," in Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, editors, "High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences" University of Chicago Press (2018)

M3  - presented at "High Skill Immigration in the Global Economy", July 10-11, 2016
AB  - We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to quantify the impact of high-skilled immigration, and the increasing tendency of such immigrants to work in innovation, on the pace of non-routine-biased technical change, the polarization of employment opportunities, and the evolution of wage inequality since 1980.
ER  -