Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results : (131) Arrow Down
Filter Results : (131) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (790)
    • Faculty Publications  (131)

    Show Results For

    • All HBS Web  (790)
      • Faculty Publications  (131)

      Immigration Remove Immigration →

      Page 1 of 131 Results →

      Are you looking for?

      → Search All HBS Web
      • September 2023
      • Article

      Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé
      We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a...  View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Immigration; Talent and Talent Management; India
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ina Ganguli, and Patrick Gaulé. "Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology." Art. 103120. Journal of Development Economics 164 (September 2023).
      • August 2023
      • Article

      Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco

      By: Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
      Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data...  View Details
      Keywords: Migration; North Africa; Morocco; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Middle East; Immigration; Perception; Developing Countries and Economies; Labor; Morocco
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Purchase
      Related
      Buehler, Matt, Kristin E. Fabbe, and Eleni Kyrkopoulou. "Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco." ILR Review 76, no. 4 (August 2023): 748–773.
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Migration Fear and Minority Crowd-Funding Success: Evidence from Kickstarter

      By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr, Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz
      The US Migration Fear Index fluctuated substantially during 2009-2021, especially during the campaign and early administration of President Trump. During quarters of low anxiety, minorities are 2.4% less likely to achieve their crowd-funding goals than white creators...  View Details
      Keywords: Crowdfunding; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Immigration; Public Opinion
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Bai, John (Jianqui), William R. Kerr, Chi Wan, and Alptug Yorulmaz. "Migration Fear and Minority Crowd-Funding Success: Evidence from Kickstarter." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-046, January 2023.
      • January 2023
      • Article

      Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

      By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
      We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other...  View Details
      Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

      By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
      We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Bernstein, Shai, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada. "The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-065, December 2021. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30797, December 2022.)
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception

      By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Mara Vidali
      Under what conditions do citizens and elites support the creation of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their area, and what types of facilities do they prefer? What types of concerns underlay these preferences and how do they differ by ideology and elite...  View Details
      Keywords: National Security; Immigration; Refugees; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Greece
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Fabbe, Kristin, Eleni Kyrkopoulou, and Mara Vidali. "Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-026, November 2022.
      • August 2022
      • Case

      Southwick Social Ventures

      By: Henry McGee, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
      In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had found a promising potential investment in Southwick Social Ventures (SSV), a worker and management-owned trouser manufacturer. With a 100% immigrant workforce, the co-operative was focused on reviving...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      McGee, Henry, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Southwick Social Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 323-011, August 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy

      By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
      This paper studies the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese immigration to the United States after 1882, across U.S. counties between 1870 and 1940. We find that the Act reduced labor supply for both the Chinese and other groups (i.e., white and...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Growth; Productivity; Business History; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business and Government Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation; United States
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, March 2022.
      • August, 2022
      • Article

      Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States

      By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
      How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of...  View Details
      Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Ingroup-outgroup Relations; Immigration; Race; Relationships; United States
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Fouka, Vasiliki, and Marco Tabellini. "Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States." American Political Science Review 116, no. 3 (August, 2022): 968–984. (Featured in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and HBS Working Knowledge.)
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Geographies of Discontent: How Public Service Deprivation Increased Far-Right Support in Italy

      By: Simone Cremaschi, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti and Catherine E. De Vries
      Electoral support for far-right parties is often linked to specific geographies of discontent. We argue that public service deprivation, defined as poor access to public services at the local level, helps explain these patterns in far-right support. Public service...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Service; Politics; Voting Behavior; Voting; Voters' Interests; Electoral Behavior; Elections; Election Outcomes; Voting Trusts; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Political Elections; Government Administration; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Situation or Environment; Public Relations Industry; Europe; Italy
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Cremaschi, Simone, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti, and Catherine E. De Vries. "Geographies of Discontent: How Public Service Deprivation Increased Far-Right Support in Italy." Working Paper, July 2022.
      • June 2022 (Revised November 2022)
      • Case

      The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Sweden's Utopia at a Crossroads

      By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
      Sweden’s model of capitalism rests on a unique social contract, in which social welfare priorities can co-exist within a vibrant capitalist system. In 2022, however, contemporary pressures were growing on the traditional Swedish model, including mounting calls for...  View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Social Welfare; Policy; Privatization; Immigration; Social Issues; Civil Society or Community; Government and Politics; Sweden
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Sweden's Utopia at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 322-046, June 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
      • June 10, 2022
      • Book Review

      What the Research Really Says about American Immigration, Book review of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

      By: Michael Luca
      Citation
      Register to Read
      Related
      Luca, Michael. "What the Research Really Says about American Immigration, Book review of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan." Washington Post (June 10, 2022).
      • Article

      From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

      By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
      How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern...  View Details
      Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 2 (March 2022): 811–842. (Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet, the Skepticast, and Oxford University Press Blog.)
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups

      By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
      Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...  View Details
      Keywords: High-tech; H1-B; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Venture Capital
      Citation
      Read Now
      Purchase
      Related
      Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
      • March 2022
      • Article

      Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

      By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr
      U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial...  View Details
      Keywords: Clusters; Invention; Agglomeration; Artificial Intelligence; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; AI and Machine Learning
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Chattergoon, Brad, and William R. Kerr. "Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention." Art. 104418. Research Policy 51, no. 2 (March 2022).
      • February 14, 2022
      • Blog Post

      Immigration Is the Key to Emerging Markets Becoming Innovation Hubs

      By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Sara Signorelli
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Sara Signorelli. "Immigration Is the Key to Emerging Markets Becoming Innovation Hubs." Future Development (blog) (February 14, 2022). https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2022/02/14/immigration-is-the-key-to-emerging-markets-becoming-innovation-hubs/.
      • January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
      • Case

      Chinese Restriction, Violence, and Exclusion in the United States

      By: Tom Nicholas, Boyang Han and Tomas Rosales
      Many early Chinese immigrants to the United States during the 1850s worked as traditional gold miners, but as gold mining declined in significance, an increasing number were employed as laborers for large scale construction projects such as railroads, roadways, and in...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration Acts; Immigration; Labor; Jobs and Positions; Race; Social Issues; Laws and Statutes
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Nicholas, Tom, Boyang Han, and Tomas Rosales. "Chinese Restriction, Violence, and Exclusion in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 822-091, January 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms

      By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli and James M. Sappenfield
      Leveraging a unique dataset merging patent data with all work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms...  View Details
      Keywords: Migration; Technology; Policy Evaluation; Patents; Information Technology; Immigration; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Globalization
      Citation
      SSRN
      Read Now
      Related
      Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli, and James M. Sappenfield. "Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-047, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
      • January 2022
      • Teaching Plan

      Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden

      By: Brian Trelstad and Emilie Billaud
      Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-040. Just Arrived is an online platform that matches newly-arrived immigrants in Sweden with employment opportunities. As one of several for-profit and non-profit start-ups in Europe that is looking to address the refugee crisis, the...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Refugees; Employment; Integration; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Sweden; Italy; Germany
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Trelstad, Brian, and Emilie Billaud. "Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 322-025, January 2022.
      • 2022
      • Case

      Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

      By: Andrew J. Hoffman
      When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border...  View Details
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Hoffman, Andrew J. "Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." William Davidson Institute Case 3-951-926, 2022.
      • 1
      • 2
      • …
      • 6
      • 7
      • →

      Are you looking for?

      → Search All HBS Web
      ǁ
      Campus Map
      Harvard Business School
      Soldiers Field
      Boston, MA 02163
      →Map & Directions
      →More Contact Information
      • Make a Gift
      • Site Map
      • Jobs
      • Harvard University
      • Trademarks
      • Policies
      • Accessibility
      • Digital Accessibility
      Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College