Professor
@Wharton
. Author of The Truth About Immigration. I study the movement of people, ideas, and firms. Associate Editor - Strategic Management Journal.
Today is the day! My book is officially available! ๐ I'm so thrilled to finally share it with you. To celebrate, join me tomorrow for a webinar where we'll chat about all things immigration (). Hope to see you there! ๐
I got
#tenure
@Wharton
! I know lots of people are getting bad news about their jobs right now. Without being blind to that, I'm (1) thankful and (2) amazed this could happen to someone like me. I wrote this to publicly celebrate & thank others:
*** EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE MY BOOK ***
The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, & nonpartisan. Learn more & preorder:
See below for praise from David Card
@AdamMGrant
Guido Imbens
@Richard_Florida
@LuisvonAhn
& Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
๐งตon a crucial & ๐คฏ study. Immigrants represent 16% of US inventors but account for 36% of patents. 23% is a direct contribution as authors. 13% indirect by making *native* inventors more productive. Letโs break the direct & indirect effect down:
Tenure committee: We take a holistic approach to evaluating faculty. We consider publication counts (pink), quality (blue), impact (yellow), teaching (orange), service (green), etc.
Reality: ๐
I see a lot of
#AcademicTwitter
posts about working insane hours & having no personal life. I wanna state that it's possible to have a fulfilling & successful academic career while working reasonable hours & enjoying personal/family life! Let's model this more often! A mini ๐งต
Do yourself a favor and read this article on skilled immigrants and firms by my superstar colleague
@BrittaGlennon
. It's a masterful summary of why firms are crucial to understanding how immigration affects our economic prosperity.
How did the US
#dairy
industry develop? Because of Danish
#immigrants
in the late 19th century. Places with more
#Danish
newcomers specialized in dairy farming and used more modern techniques. Super cool study showing the crucial role of migration in
#knowledge
transfer.
I'm excited to begin serving as an Associate Editor at
@SMJ_Jour
! It's an honor to play a role in evaluating & accepting cutting edge research. I look forward to learning from and shaping the direction of new ideas in the field of strategic management.
Does
#immigration
make
#inventors
more productive? Or do more
#productive
inventors emigrate?
The answer is both, but 85% of the effect is because migrating *makes* inventors more productive.
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not!
I've been playing around with
@ConnectedPapers
. Input a paper and it generates a graph of dozens of related papers based on topical similarity. A real game changer for discovering related works, literature reviews, & making connections across fields. Great tool!
The stories we tell really matter. Exposure to narratives of
#successful
#immigrants
through the
#media
improves attitudes towards immigration. Nice paper using the case of the Turkish-German inventors of the BioNTech-Pfizer covid vaccine. Full paper here:
1/4 New paper! The more
#VC
firms invest
#startups
led by
#immigrant
entrepreneurs, the more they later
#invest
in startups from the entrepreneurs' home country. Evidence from U.S. VC's investing in India. With
@Sarathbc
Saddened by the passing of
@BarsadeSigal
. She was always a kind and supportive colleague. And my neighbor for 4 years, who loved my kids. Her early work on escalation of commitment influenced my decision to get a PhD (even though I'm not an OB scholar). You'll be missed, Sigal!
Many good points here. Americans are always scared of the recent wave of newcomers, but they always integrate successfullyโno matter where they come from.
In every way that I can see, Hispanic Americans seem to be following the same path toward integration into American society and culture that the Irish followed over a century earlier:
Important new paper by Alessandro Caiumi &
@giov_peri
During 2000-2019,
#immigrants
in the US had a positive & significant effect (+1.7 to +2.6) on the
#wages
of less educated native workers & a positive effect on
#employment
Woke up to an email accepting a paper! โSynergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Lifecycles, and Valueโ 2+ years under review, 4 big revisions. Very happy! Will post thread on the paper soon. For now, ๐
Why do we keep rolling the dice on which firms get talented people? Do we really want to randomly decide who gets to
#innovate
and
#grow
their business? And how much value do we destroy by keeping talent out?
Just to cite one example:
USCIS has received enough electronic registrations for unique beneficiaries during the initial registration period to reach the FY 25 H-1B cap. We have notified those who were randomly selected. For more information, visit:
I just told my only daughter (7 years old) that
@KamalaHarris
will be the first woman the be VP. She told me she wants to be VP one day too. Thank you senator Harris and congratulations!
๐งตon return migration
Most people don't realize that a very high % of
#immigrants
*voluntarily* return home. This new paper shows a return rate of 40% for those who arrived to the US between 2005-2007, driven by low earnings in America.
Exactly 10 years ago I defended my dissertation! Next to me is my wife (expecting). Days later I was hooded by
@aks_zaheer
, my co-advisor along with Myles Shaver. I've had a beautiful career since.
@CarlsonNews
&
@UMNews
changed my life!
#Thankful
#PhD
#Graduation
#Writing
is about momentum (for me). If I'm stuck, I start writing the easy & mechanical parts of a paper (variables, results, table descriptions). That gets me going. And when the wheels are rolling, I can move on to harder & more creative parts (introduction, arguments, etc.)
The migration & organizations conference is off to the races! Follow this thread as I tweet about the super cool work being presented over the next 2 days.
Hereโs the full program:
Do yourself another favor and read this paper too! The contributions of
#immigrants
to
#innovation
is disproportionately large.
@leflix311
&
@emiguelez
have been studying this for years. Another must-read for anyone who wants to live in a prosperous society.
Interesting work on how social
#network
structure affects
#migration
decisions.
Itโs common to think that the decision to migrate is primarily an economic one. But itโs not. Itโs fundamentally social.
``How do social networks influence the decision to migrate?
@jblumenstock
, Chi, and Tan analyze a nationโs mobile phone logs, and find that dense networks matter more than extensive networks.''
Immigrants directly invent more than their expected share because they:
1. Are more productive over their career (graph 1)
2. Patent in more novel fields
3. Are more likely to move into highly productive tech hubs
4. Bring scientific knowledge from foreign countries (graph 2)
#Immigrants
keep "disadvantaged" parts of the US going. Example: foreign-born
#doctors
serve in places with physician shortages. That doesn't crowd out native physicians. The evidence of net positives from immigration keeps piling on...
๐๐๐Save the date, send us your best work, & help us spread the word!
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@prithwic
@dansalright
Please RT & spread the word! We're delighted to announce a special issue on
#Migration
&
#Organizations
in
@OrganizationSci
, one of the "top 5" management journals. Click to see the call for papers & details. Submissions due December 31, 2021. Exciting!
Excited to share my new book "The Truth About Immigration" - a nonpartisan, fact-based exploration of the positive impact immigrants have on society. Join me in this important conversation.
#Immigration
#NewBook
Conditional accept! Best way to enter the weekend! Itโs a paper Iโm super proud of with a coauthor team I love. Thatโs all for now. More details later! Hint in the gif belowโฆ
#research
#acceptance
Updated estimates of
#immigrant
#entrepreneurship
in the US by
@william_r_kerr
& coauthors. Tons of powerful insights. Bottom line: "Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship"
Iโve never used this platform to discuss my religious views. Today Iโll make an exception. Christ taught โlove one anotherโ and โblessed are the peacemakersโ. I try to live by those words. Yesterdayโs โBible photo opโ was cynical and antithetical to everything Jesus said and did.
Why train so much foreign talent and then throw it out? Itโs economic suicide, especially when foreign talent complements native talent. Also fascinating that WSJ explicitly calls out the โcultural reasonsโ (= xenophobia) of restrictionists in DHS.
All 3 of todayโs
#NobelPrize
winners in physics are
#immigrants
. So is Katalin Kariko, who won it in medicine yesterday. Par for the course. But someone out there is probably whining that they took a job from a native, or that they caused brain drainโฆ
1/6 Just accepted by
@OrganizationSci
: "Immigrants and Foreign Firm Performance" (with Elena Kulchina).
Do
#immigrants
help co-national firms (from their home countries) perform better in foreign countries?
It's a privilege to teach
@Wharton
! Really thankful to the students and colleagues who nominated me for this. And great to share the recognition with colleagues I greatly respect: Emilie Feldman,
@AndyWuAndyWu
,
@henningpiezunka
, Olga Hawn, etc.
#MBA
I'm so proud of
@Sarathbc
, who defended his dissertation today and passed with flying colors. Tremendous work on how
#CVC
affects
#startups
. He'll be joining the Strategy group at
@LBS
this summer. As my first advisee, feels a bit like sending a first child off to the world.
Really interesting, important, and well-executed paper by
@ChloeNEast
and coauthors. Deportations decreased employment for both immigrants and non-immigrants remaining in the US. More evidence in favor of the job-creating effects of
#immigration
Short ๐งต on a really cool paper by
@JKleinhempel
& coauthors! The fact that immigrants have much higher rates of entrepreneurship that natives is one of the most strongly establish results I know of. But it's been hard to know why.
#immigration
#entrepreneurship
#culture
Does national culture influence entrepreneurship?
Excited to see our paper โwith Mariko J. Klasing and Sjoerd Beugelsdijkโ now published in the September-October Issue (34:5) of
@OrganizationSci
:
So honored, humbled, thankful to receive the Emerging Scholar Award from
@Strategic_Mgmt
. I have amazing mentors, coauthors, and colleagues. Thank you!! This is a challenge to live up to an ideal of relevant and rigorous scholarship.
Hugely important paper! Lifting restrictions on foreign workers improved the performance of firms in Switzerland & improved the wages of native skilled workers. I love the focus on firm performance We need more work linking
#migration
to
#organizations
.
Iโm the doctoral coordinator in my department. Processing applications is hard work. But seeing the joy in the eyes of the students we admit makes it all worth it!
#academia
#PhD
Unboxing โThe Truth About Immigration" was a surreal feeling! ๐ After years of hard work, I can finally hold this book in my hands. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I learned while writing it! ๐โจ
#BookLaunch
#NewBook
#immigration
Grateful to the Economist for featuring my book, The Truth About Immigration, in their cover story this week. Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not! How can we do better to attract the immigrants who will build our future?
#immigration
#talent
#skill
This interview with
@leah_boustan
brings up three principles of good research: 1) the question comes first (before identification), 2) explore & arbitrage in areas outside your core discipline, 3) toggle b/w data and question. I talk about this with PhD students all the time.
.
@leah_boustan
talks about the challenges of asking the right research questions to the economics students
@GC_CUNY
.
This is an interview of interest to all early career researchers.
Read it!
Thanks
@PennGazette
for making my cover boy dreams come true! Itโs an honor to be in a magazine started by Ben Franklin. The article is quite personal, explaining how my story weaves into my research & recent book. Thanks, Trey Popp for the great writing.
As of today, my book is Amazonโs top new release in its category in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook! Many thanks to each of you for your overwhelming support. I donโt take it for granted!
(This could change any minute, so the brag is just temporary)
1/5
#H1B
approvals dropped sharply last year, keep falling this year via
@mercnews
. The consequences of this are, on net, not good for the US economy or US workers. The empirical evidence is pretty compelling. Just a few examples:
I've started a newsletter called Zekrets, with evidence-based ideas on global economic issues -- and a dollop of life wisdom. Learn more and sign up here!
Curious? Read the first edition here:
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Iโm gonna maintain this as a permanent thread documenting instances โgo back to your countryโ
#discrimination
. Itโs one of the worst things
#immigrants
and their descendants can be told. Itโs also more common than we imagine. Weโre better than this!
๐ Exciting news today! "The Truth About Immigration" is the
#1
New Release in Social Public Policy on Amazon! Thank you all for your amazing support. What are your thoughts on how immigration is impacting our communities? Drop your views below! ๐
#ImmigrationMatters
#BookLaunch
Thread on how we collectively frame
#immigrants
as economic actors. Main point: they are NOT substitutes for native workers, and they are not *just* labor/workers. Now for the longer explanation...
Amazing.
@BYUMarriott
sends nearly 2.5 times more students to
#Business
#PhD
programs than the No. 2 school (
@Penn
). Iโm a product of that program & very grateful for it.
Universities = invention. They foster a lot of patents, most of them NOT by faculty or students. Nice test comparing locations that were runner-ups to get a college vs. those that got the college.
Full text here:
Thankful for all the invisible people keeping us safe: doctors, nurses, shelf stockers, parents, janitors, etc.
โSuch is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.โ (JRR Tolkien)
Really important point by
@mattyglesias
. Many of the gains from immigration are unpredictable. We just donโt know which individual or national group will bring a new skill, product, investment, or innovation. A good system shouldnโt over-target certain people or skills.
(cont.)
Viewing
#immigrants
as *only*
#labor
(like this policy) is self-defeating. All of us (not just immigrants) are also consumers, investors, taxpayers, ideas generators, etc in the economy. If you get that, you need not fear new people. Quite the opposite!
Hey
#immigration
experts, I need HELP: Can someone point me to the best research on the
#political
#assimilation
of
#immigrants
? I'm especially interested in whether immigrants adopt similar or different political views than those in the communities they settle in.
@PoetsAndQuants
โMy favorite MBA professor was Professor Zeke Hernandez, who taught global strategy. ... What I appreciated most about Zeke was his kind heart, strong advocacy, genuine interest in his students as people, and his positive affirmations about work and life."
๐
@ProfZeke
For me, the most useful principle in finding work-life balance is this:
The scarce resource in research jobs isn't time. It's insight!
Therefore, we must seek to maximize the inputs that enhance our insight instead of maximizing time, which is not the most important input.
So glad to see this paper officially out in the latest issue of
@OrganizationSci
! We show that immigrants help co-national firms increase their profitability in foreign markets. An earlier thread with all the details:
1/6 Just accepted by
@OrganizationSci
: "Immigrants and Foreign Firm Performance" (with Elena Kulchina).
Do
#immigrants
help co-national firms (from their home countries) perform better in foreign countries?
Dragonfly is opening an R&D center in Copenhagen instead of the US because of crazy restrictions on
#H1Bvisas
. Not an isolated case:
@BrittaGlennon
shows firms open offices & hire more outside the US when
#immigration
restrictions increase.
#EconomicSuicide
We're hiring a professor of multinational management
@Wharton
. If you study cross-border business or take the national institutional environment seriously, apply! Weโre an intellectually engaging and interpersonally supportive group. More details here:
1/7 This isn't about protecting us from COVID19. It's a political move to advance a long-standing agenda. The real aim is for it to go beyond "temporary." This ban would seriously hamper the ability of the US to recover from this crisis. Some facts:
Itโs not every day that the editor of
@TheEconomist
calls your book brilliant. Thank you
@robertguest1
! Iโm so honored! The article is excellent and covers one of the most important issues that will determine the future of economic growth.
New Short Paper - "Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions"
Simple bit of fun, but some empirical evidence to backup the anecdotes:
Working on a syllabus for a PhD seminar. It's so hard to have to leave papers out! Like not inviting a best friend to a party. It's that or assign 75 articles per session and overwhelm the doctoral students...
#academicproblems