International college students' impact on the US skilled labor supply

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan
• 署名单位: University of Luxembourg; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Luxembourg
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104917
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: international students; college tuition; local labor markets; Immigration policy

摘要

While US universities attract millions of international students, we do not know how many of them work in the US after graduating. In this paper we implement an instrumental variable estimation, using quasirandom variations in the tuition charged, and we estimate that between 2003 and 2017 one more international master (or bachelor) student, attracted by a university, increased the US skilled labor supply in the year of graduation by about 0.23 (0.08) employees. Only for STEM students such effect on labor supply was positive and significant, especially after the 2008 Optional Practical Training reform. & COPY; 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.