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Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products

  • Written by Gaurav Khanna, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego
Apple’s Tim Cook believes access to high-skill immigrants is a key source of American innovation.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

Much of the current debate over immigration is about what kind of impact immigrants have on jobs and wages for workers born in the United States.

Seldom does anyone talk about how immigration leads to a wider variety of...

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