B Lindsay Lowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 315287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Lindsay Lowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | B Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowell |
| SIGNATURE | LOWELL B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The foreign born in the American healthcare workforce: Trends in this century’s first decade
This study describes the native and foreign born in US healthcare in the first decade of this century. Immigrant women are more likely than natives to be employed in long term care where they are most concentrated among professional practitioners and lesser skilled direct care workers. The foreign born are similar to natives in their average age, education and the dominance of women. They differ in being more likely to reside in metropolitan area…
The Wages of Skilled Temporary Migrants: Effects of Visa Pathways and Job Portability
We examine the earnings of highly‐skilled foreign, temporary workers and how changes in visa system affect their earnings. We use the National Science Foundation's 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and find that foreign students and temporary workers earn less than natives and permanent immigrant workers on average. Changes in visa status increase earnings, but initial visa status conditions later earnings growth along visa pathways. This…
Managing the Dynamic Science and Engineering Labor Market in the United States
The five million workers employed in science and engineering (S&E) occupations, and the 20 million with S&E degrees, are considered keys to U.S. competitiveness in the 21st century. Most of those earning PhDs in engineering at U.S. universities are foreigners, as are many of those earning PhDs in science. Many U.S. employers assert that the U.S. Government impairs economic competitiveness with policies that force some foreigners who earn advanced…
Ageing and Care Giving in the United States: Policy Contexts and the Immigrant Workforce
A Long View of America's Immigration Policy and the Supply of Foreign-Born STEM Workers in the United States
The immigration policy of the United States has admitted generous numbers of skilled migrants. There was a steady increase from the 1950s and then notable growth following the acts of 1965 and 1990, including a substantial increase in the 1990s. Today, the foreign born make up one quarter of the workforce in the life and physical sciences, one fifth of information technology, and one sixth of the engineering workforce. Yet, many observers are con…
A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration
Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing female migration should lead to a better understanding of the forces that shape international migration. We build an original data set providing gender-disaggregated indicators of international migration by educational attainment for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000.…
A Gendered Assessment Of The Brain Drain
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migrati…
Immigrant professionals in the United States
International Health Worker Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Best Practices
Transnational Twist: Pecuniary Remittances and the Socioeconomic Integration of Authorized and Unauthorized Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles County
Annual U.S.-Mexico pecuniary remittances are estimated to have more than doubled recently to at least $10 billion – augmenting interest among policymakers, financial institutions, and transnational migrant communities concerning how relatively poor expatriate Mexicans sustain such large transfers and the impact on immigrant integration in the United States. We employ the 2001 Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant Residency Status Survey (LAC-MIRSS…
Declining Numbers of Foreign Students and America's Science and Engineering Enterprise
The enterprise of science and engineering (S&E) is powerfully affected by the role of immigrants in institutions of higher education and in US labour markets (Freeman et al., 2004). Especially since the 1970s and increasingly in the 1990s, educational institutions and labour markets have experienced steady increases of foreign students and workers and have come to expect more of the same. Yet, since 2001 there have been notable downturns in the n…
Transatlantic Roundtable on Low‐skilled Migration in the Twenty‐first Century: Prospect and Policies
Immigrants and the Healthcare Workforce: Profiles and Shortages
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that healthcare services will account for one out of every six new jobs from 2002 to 2012. Immigrants are a significant percentage of workers in both highskill and low-skill jobs (one fourth of both physicians and nursing aides) in the healthcare industry. Within this industry, immigrants are at least as important in meeting demand for low-skilled jobs as they are for the more hotly debated upper end. Even …
Immigrant Job Quality and Mobility in the United States
The U.S. workforce heavily depends on immigrants. To address the role and position of non-White immigrant groups in the United States, the authors examine employment and industry patterns in the labor force, disaggregated by nativity and gender, in 1990 and 2000. The authors then look at job quality and mobility, with job quality defined by occupation, industry, and relative earnings, using 1990 and 2000 census data. Disaggregating results by rac…
The Value of Bilingualism in the U.S. Labor Market
Much is surmised, but little is known about the value of bilingualism in today's U.S. economy. The authors use the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) to provide the first rigorous estimates of the wages of bilingual workers. Although the nominal wages of bilinguals exceed those of their monolingual peers, this pattern largely reflects the higher completed schooling of the bilinguals. In fact, regression analysis shows that bilingual skills do …
Skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States
Temporary Workers or Future Citizens? Japanese and U.S. Migration Policies
- Does Japan Need Immigrants? K.Koshiro - The Economic Consequences of Immigration: The United States and Japan B.Chiswick - PART 4: RIGHTS AND BENEFITS - Japanese Policies on the Rights and Benefits of Foreign Workers, Residents and Illegals T.Hanami - The Legal Rights of Citizens and Aliens in the United States P.H.Schuck - PART 5: GERMANY'S MIGRATION POLICIES THROUGH AMERICAN AND JAPANESE EYES - What We Can Learn from the German Experiences Co…
The incidence of subminimum pay among native and immigrant workers
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate …
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
This article estimates the unauthorized U.S. labor force and explores employers’ initial reactions to the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). A sample of businesses, undertaken to evaluate IRCA impact, supplies information on hiring practices. A selectivity correction model is used to impute 2.6 million unauthorized workers in the entire sample which compares favorably with other estimates. The estimate is tabulated …
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
Introduction: Immigration and U.S. Integration, Policy Reforms, and Economic Change
The economic and political ramifications of immigration will become increasingly evident in the United States during the coming decade, particularly in view of recent immigration policies that guarantee that the magnitude and diversity of the inflow will continue to grow. This symposium presents research that examines the role of immigrants in industrial restructuring and evaluates the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The i…
Undocumented Mexican immigrants and the earnings of other workers in the United States
This article examines the effects of undocumented Mexican immigrants on the earnings of other workers in geographical labor markets in the Southwest. The number of undocumented Mexicans included in the 1980 census in southwestern SMSAs is estimated. We then estimate the parameters of three specifications of a generalized Leontief production function with various demographic groups as substitutable factors. The statistically significant effects of…
Undocumented Migration to the United States: Perceptions and Evidence
As the number of immigrants to the United States has risen over the past 20 years and as their national origins have shifted to Third World countries the attention of the public and of policymakers has increasingly focused on the costs rather than the benefits associated with the arrival of newcomers. After a brief examination of the size of the undocumented population in the United States--most of whom are Mexican in origin--the article examines…
Undocumented Mexican immigrants and the earnings of other workers in the United States
This article examines the effects of undocumented Mexican immigrants on the earnings of other workers in geographical labor markets in the Southwest. The number of undocumented Mexicans included in the 1980 census in southwestern SMSAs is estimated. We then estimate the parameters of three specifications of a generalized Leontief production function with various demographic groups as substitutable factors. The statistically significant effects of…
A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration
Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing female migration should lead to a better understanding of the forces that shape international migration. We build an original data set providing gender-disaggregated indicators of international migration by educational attainment for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000.…
Immigrant Job Quality and Mobility in the United States
The U.S. workforce heavily depends on immigrants. To address the role and position of non-White immigrant groups in the United States, the authors examine employment and industry patterns in the labor force, disaggregated by nativity and gender, in 1990 and 2000. The authors then look at job quality and mobility, with job quality defined by occupation, industry, and relative earnings, using 1990 and 2000 census data. Disaggregating results by rac…
Transnational Twist: Pecuniary Remittances and the Socioeconomic Integration of Authorized and Unauthorized Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles County
Annual U.S.-Mexico pecuniary remittances are estimated to have more than doubled recently to at least $10 billion – augmenting interest among policymakers, financial institutions, and transnational migrant communities concerning how relatively poor expatriate Mexicans sustain such large transfers and the impact on immigrant integration in the United States. We employ the 2001 Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant Residency Status Survey (LAC-MIRSS…
Undocumented Migration to the United States: Perceptions and Evidence
As the number of immigrants to the United States has risen over the past 20 years and as their national origins have shifted to Third World countries the attention of the public and of policymakers has increasingly focused on the costs rather than the benefits associated with the arrival of newcomers. After a brief examination of the size of the undocumented population in the United States--most of whom are Mexican in origin--the article examines…
Skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States
The Value of Bilingualism in the U.S. Labor Market
Much is surmised, but little is known about the value of bilingualism in today's U.S. economy. The authors use the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) to provide the first rigorous estimates of the wages of bilingual workers. Although the nominal wages of bilinguals exceed those of their monolingual peers, this pattern largely reflects the higher completed schooling of the bilinguals. In fact, regression analysis shows that bilingual skills do …
The Wages of Skilled Temporary Migrants: Effects of Visa Pathways and Job Portability
We examine the earnings of highly‐skilled foreign, temporary workers and how changes in visa system affect their earnings. We use the National Science Foundation's 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and find that foreign students and temporary workers earn less than natives and permanent immigrant workers on average. Changes in visa status increase earnings, but initial visa status conditions later earnings growth along visa pathways. This…
International Health Worker Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Best Practices
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate …
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
This article estimates the unauthorized U.S. labor force and explores employers’ initial reactions to the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). A sample of businesses, undertaken to evaluate IRCA impact, supplies information on hiring practices. A selectivity correction model is used to impute 2.6 million unauthorized workers in the entire sample which compares favorably with other estimates. The estimate is tabulated …
Immigrants and the Healthcare Workforce: Profiles and Shortages
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that healthcare services will account for one out of every six new jobs from 2002 to 2012. Immigrants are a significant percentage of workers in both highskill and low-skill jobs (one fourth of both physicians and nursing aides) in the healthcare industry. Within this industry, immigrants are at least as important in meeting demand for low-skilled jobs as they are for the more hotly debated upper end. Even …
Ageing and Care Giving in the United States: Policy Contexts and the Immigrant Workforce
A Long View of America's Immigration Policy and the Supply of Foreign-Born STEM Workers in the United States
The immigration policy of the United States has admitted generous numbers of skilled migrants. There was a steady increase from the 1950s and then notable growth following the acts of 1965 and 1990, including a substantial increase in the 1990s. Today, the foreign born make up one quarter of the workforce in the life and physical sciences, one fifth of information technology, and one sixth of the engineering workforce. Yet, many observers are con…
Immigrant professionals in the United States
The incidence of subminimum pay among native and immigrant workers
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
Managing the Dynamic Science and Engineering Labor Market in the United States
The five million workers employed in science and engineering (S&E) occupations, and the 20 million with S&E degrees, are considered keys to U.S. competitiveness in the 21st century. Most of those earning PhDs in engineering at U.S. universities are foreigners, as are many of those earning PhDs in science. Many U.S. employers assert that the U.S. Government impairs economic competitiveness with policies that force some foreigners who earn advanced…
Transatlantic Roundtable on Low‐skilled Migration in the Twenty‐first Century: Prospect and Policies
Introduction: Immigration and U.S. Integration, Policy Reforms, and Economic Change
The economic and political ramifications of immigration will become increasingly evident in the United States during the coming decade, particularly in view of recent immigration policies that guarantee that the magnitude and diversity of the inflow will continue to grow. This symposium presents research that examines the role of immigrants in industrial restructuring and evaluates the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The i…
Undocumented Migration to the United States: Perceptions and Evidence
As the number of immigrants to the United States has risen over the past 20 years and as their national origins have shifted to Third World countries the attention of the public and of policymakers has increasingly focused on the costs rather than the benefits associated with the arrival of newcomers. After a brief examination of the size of the undocumented population in the United States--most of whom are Mexican in origin--the article examines…
Undocumented Mexican immigrants and the earnings of other workers in the United States
This article examines the effects of undocumented Mexican immigrants on the earnings of other workers in geographical labor markets in the Southwest. The number of undocumented Mexicans included in the 1980 census in southwestern SMSAs is estimated. We then estimate the parameters of three specifications of a generalized Leontief production function with various demographic groups as substitutable factors. The statistically significant effects of…
Introduction: Immigration and U.S. Integration, Policy Reforms, and Economic Change
The economic and political ramifications of immigration will become increasingly evident in the United States during the coming decade, particularly in view of recent immigration policies that guarantee that the magnitude and diversity of the inflow will continue to grow. This symposium presents research that examines the role of immigrants in industrial restructuring and evaluates the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The i…
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
This article estimates the unauthorized U.S. labor force and explores employers’ initial reactions to the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). A sample of businesses, undertaken to evaluate IRCA impact, supplies information on hiring practices. A selectivity correction model is used to impute 2.6 million unauthorized workers in the entire sample which compares favorably with other estimates. The estimate is tabulated …
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate …
The incidence of subminimum pay among native and immigrant workers
Temporary Workers or Future Citizens? Japanese and U.S. Migration Policies
- Does Japan Need Immigrants? K.Koshiro - The Economic Consequences of Immigration: The United States and Japan B.Chiswick - PART 4: RIGHTS AND BENEFITS - Japanese Policies on the Rights and Benefits of Foreign Workers, Residents and Illegals T.Hanami - The Legal Rights of Citizens and Aliens in the United States P.H.Schuck - PART 5: GERMANY'S MIGRATION POLICIES THROUGH AMERICAN AND JAPANESE EYES - What We Can Learn from the German Experiences Co…
Skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States
The Value of Bilingualism in the U.S. Labor Market
Much is surmised, but little is known about the value of bilingualism in today's U.S. economy. The authors use the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) to provide the first rigorous estimates of the wages of bilingual workers. Although the nominal wages of bilinguals exceed those of their monolingual peers, this pattern largely reflects the higher completed schooling of the bilinguals. In fact, regression analysis shows that bilingual skills do …
Transatlantic Roundtable on Low‐skilled Migration in the Twenty‐first Century: Prospect and Policies
Immigrants and the Healthcare Workforce: Profiles and Shortages
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that healthcare services will account for one out of every six new jobs from 2002 to 2012. Immigrants are a significant percentage of workers in both highskill and low-skill jobs (one fourth of both physicians and nursing aides) in the healthcare industry. Within this industry, immigrants are at least as important in meeting demand for low-skilled jobs as they are for the more hotly debated upper end. Even …
Immigrant Job Quality and Mobility in the United States
The U.S. workforce heavily depends on immigrants. To address the role and position of non-White immigrant groups in the United States, the authors examine employment and industry patterns in the labor force, disaggregated by nativity and gender, in 1990 and 2000. The authors then look at job quality and mobility, with job quality defined by occupation, industry, and relative earnings, using 1990 and 2000 census data. Disaggregating results by rac…
Transnational Twist: Pecuniary Remittances and the Socioeconomic Integration of Authorized and Unauthorized Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles County
Annual U.S.-Mexico pecuniary remittances are estimated to have more than doubled recently to at least $10 billion – augmenting interest among policymakers, financial institutions, and transnational migrant communities concerning how relatively poor expatriate Mexicans sustain such large transfers and the impact on immigrant integration in the United States. We employ the 2001 Los Angeles County Mexican Immigrant Residency Status Survey (LAC-MIRSS…
Declining Numbers of Foreign Students and America's Science and Engineering Enterprise
The enterprise of science and engineering (S&E) is powerfully affected by the role of immigrants in institutions of higher education and in US labour markets (Freeman et al., 2004). Especially since the 1970s and increasingly in the 1990s, educational institutions and labour markets have experienced steady increases of foreign students and workers and have come to expect more of the same. Yet, since 2001 there have been notable downturns in the n…
International Health Worker Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Best Practices
Immigrant professionals in the United States
A Gendered Assessment Of The Brain Drain
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migrati…
A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration
Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing female migration should lead to a better understanding of the forces that shape international migration. We build an original data set providing gender-disaggregated indicators of international migration by educational attainment for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000.…
Ageing and Care Giving in the United States: Policy Contexts and the Immigrant Workforce
A Long View of America's Immigration Policy and the Supply of Foreign-Born STEM Workers in the United States
The immigration policy of the United States has admitted generous numbers of skilled migrants. There was a steady increase from the 1950s and then notable growth following the acts of 1965 and 1990, including a substantial increase in the 1990s. Today, the foreign born make up one quarter of the workforce in the life and physical sciences, one fifth of information technology, and one sixth of the engineering workforce. Yet, many observers are con…
Managing the Dynamic Science and Engineering Labor Market in the United States
The five million workers employed in science and engineering (S&E) occupations, and the 20 million with S&E degrees, are considered keys to U.S. competitiveness in the 21st century. Most of those earning PhDs in engineering at U.S. universities are foreigners, as are many of those earning PhDs in science. Many U.S. employers assert that the U.S. Government impairs economic competitiveness with policies that force some foreigners who earn advanced…
The foreign born in the American healthcare workforce: Trends in this century’s first decade
This study describes the native and foreign born in US healthcare in the first decade of this century. Immigrant women are more likely than natives to be employed in long term care where they are most concentrated among professional practitioners and lesser skilled direct care workers. The foreign born are similar to natives in their average age, education and the dominance of women. They differ in being more likely to reside in metropolitan area…
The Wages of Skilled Temporary Migrants: Effects of Visa Pathways and Job Portability
We examine the earnings of highly‐skilled foreign, temporary workers and how changes in visa system affect their earnings. We use the National Science Foundation's 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and find that foreign students and temporary workers earn less than natives and permanent immigrant workers on average. Changes in visa status increase earnings, but initial visa status conditions later earnings growth along visa pathways. This…
Political science (23 works) · Economics (21 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (21 works) · Demographic economics (17 works) · Immigration (17 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Labour economics (13 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Sociology (10 works)