Presenter: Xiaohuan
Lan
Affiliation: Research
Fellow, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Ph.D. in Economics,
University of Virginia
4:00-5:30 pm on Wednesday,
Nov 14th, 2012
608 Academic Hall, CUFE
Abstract
Visa
policies restrict job opportunities and job mobility for U.S.-trained PhDs who
hold a temporary visa, a group that accounts for 40% of new PhDs in science and
engineering. The Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 unexpectedly granted
Chinese students in the U.S. a green card. Many CSPA-beneficiaries did not
pursue postdoctoral training and instead entered the public or private sectors,
which increased the relative wage of native postdocs to non-postdocs. Four to
eight years after graduation, CSPA-beneficiaries earned 9% more than the
comparison group, were less likely to work in academia, published fewer research
articles, and produced more patents.