Skilled Immigration Today

Prospects, Problems, And Policies

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ID20005463
AuthorsGordon H Hanson, Jagdish Bhagwati, Jagdish N Bhagwati, Gordon Hanson (0000-0001-5798-140X)
Year2009
Pages402
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSkilled migration today (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382433.001.0001
OpenAlexW124794692
Open LibraryOL16975466M
ISBN9780195382433
LanguageEN
Citations received34

Skilled immigration into rich countries and competition for talent and professional skills are of major concern among nations today. Comprehensive immigration reform addressed to illegal immigration predictably foundered in Congress last year. This revived the question of skilled immigration and was hastily added to the proposed reform agenda in the hope that it would bring more pro-immigration troops into battle. Immigration reform still failed but it will not die. The specific issue of skilled immigration, and how to redesign it, will remain one of the central issues before the world community as well.\nHow important is this phenomenon? How do the legal-immigration systems of rich countries address this need? How do professional associations that may find such inflows a threat to their members' earnings seek to curtail these flows? What are the implications on the sending countries, which are generally less developed, when rich countries admit skilled professionals from them? Is it correct to object that the rich countries are depriving the poor ones of badly needed professionals (especially in Africa)? What should our immigration policies be in this regard? How should tax policy, for example, be changed in light of the growing phenomenon of skilled migrant flows? These and a host of related policy questions are addressed uniquely in Skilled Immigration Today. Bhagwati and Hanson present an informed awareness of the rich historical analysis of the phenomenon and several policy initiatives already attempted with sophisticated theoretical analysis. The essays, with an overview that ties them together, are written by today's foremost immigration experts

Boom · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Immigration · Immigration policy · Political science · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Alien labor · Economic aspects · emigration and immigration · Foreign workers · Government policy · Labor mobility · Skilled labor · Supply and demand

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