The Economic Impacts of Immigration and International Students

Categories Project, Working Paper

Paper for class on Science and Innovation Leadership for the 21st Century:

For the past 20 years, economists have sought to assess the characteristics of immigration as well as the costs and benefits conferred by immigrants upon a wide variety of agents. This paper reviews the immigration economics literature and seeks to understand the evidence that has been used to answer the following question: “what are the innovative, entrepreneurial, and other economic impacts of immigrants and international students?”

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