@techreport{NBERw12085, title = "Immigration in High-Skill Labor
Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of
Doctorates", author = "George J. Borjas", institution =
"National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper",
series = "Working Paper Series", number = "12085", year =
"2006", month = "March", doi = {10.3386/w12085}, URL =
"http://www.nber.org/papers/w12085", abstract = {The rapid
growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American
universities has transformed the higher education system,
particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted
doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their
doctoral degrees, so that the foreign student influx can have a
significant impact in the labor market for high-skill workers.
Using data drawn from the Survey of Earned Doctorates and the
Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the study shows that a foreign
student influx into a particular doctoral field at a particular
time had a significant and adverse effect on the