Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the United States

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Grogger, Jeffrey; Hanson, Gordon H.
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California San Diego
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/679062
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: S5-S38
• 关键词: economic-development; externalities; immigration; INNOVATION; earnings

摘要

We analyze location choices of foreign-born science and engineering students receiving PhDs from US universities. Foreign students who stay in the United States are positively selected on observables. They tend to stay in the United States during periods of strong US economic growth and during periods of weak home country economic growth. Foreign students from higher-income countries and from recently democratized countries tend not to remain in the United States. Education and innovation may therefore be part of a virtuous cycle by which education enhances a country's prospects for innovation and innovation makes the country more attractive for scientists and engineers.