International College Students' Impact on the US Skilled Labor Supply

Author(s)
Michel Beine
Giovanni Peri
Morgan Raux
Published in
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Publication Date

This paper shows that one more foreign bachelor (master)  student attracted by a U.S. university translates into only 0.1 (0.2) new US worker at graduation. While this fraction is higher for STEM students and increased when the OPT program was expanded in 2008, the US still educates hundreds of thousands of foreign college students who end up mostly employed abroad. 

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