Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252270 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15146
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence from the universe of U.S. firms and the universe of H-1B visas using alternative estimation strategies is consistent with these results. Firms that hire H-1Bs grow faster and innovate more because they are different in other ways from firms that do not.
Subjects: 
immigration
highly skilled workforce
innovation
employment
JEL: 
J00
J08
J15
J23
J24
J48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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