International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply

[en] While US universities attract millions of international students, we do not know how many of them work in the US after graduating. In this paper we implement an instrumental variable estimation, using quasi-random variations in the tuition charged, and we estimate that between 2003 and 2017 one more international master (or bachelor) student, attracted by a university, increased the US skilled labor supply in the year of graduation by about 0.23 (0.08) employees. Only for STEM students such effect on labor supply was positive and significant, especially after the 2008 Optional Practical Training reform.

Disciplines :

International economics

Author, co-author :

BEINE, Michel ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM)

Peri, Giovanni; UC Davis, NBER and IZA, United States

RAUX, Morgan ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM)

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

International college students’ impact on the US skilled labor supply

Publication date :

July 2023

Journal title :

Journal of Public Economics

ISSN :

0047-2727

Publisher :

Elsevier B.V.

Volume :

223

Pages :

104917

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0047272723000993?httpAccept=text/xml

Funders :

Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
Université du Luxembourg

Funding text :

Morgan Raux acknowledges financial supports from the Luxembourg National Research Fund, Grant C21/SC/15729735.

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