Skilled immigration today : prospects, problems, and policies
Bhagwati, Jagdish NContributor
Hanson, Gordon HContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2009.
With chapters written by some of the most important names in the field, this book provides a systematic look at the phenomenon of skilled immigration, its prospects, its possibilities, and resulting problems.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
With chapters written by some of the most important names in the field, this book provides a systematic look at the phenomenon of skilled immigration, its prospects, its possibilities, and resulting problems.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview of issues / Jagdish Bhagwati -- Supply of and demand for skilled labor in the United States / Lynn A. Karoly and Constantijn W.A. Panis -- Skilled-labor mobility in postwar Europe / L. Alan Winters -- Public finance in an era of global demographic change : fertility busts, migration booms, and public policy / David E. Wildasin -- Skilled immigration to America : U.S. admission policies in the 21st century / Susan Martin, B. Lindsay Lowell, and Micah Bump -- Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and U.S. employment immigration / Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig -- The role of professional societies in regulating entry of skilled migrants : the American Medical Association / Sherry A. Glied and Debojyoti Sarkar -- Individual preferences over high-skilled immigration in the United States / Gordon Hanson, Kenneth Scheve, and Matthew J. Slaughter -- Skilled immigration : the perspective of developing countries / Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapaport -- Income taxation and skilled migration: the analytical issues / John Douglas Wilson -- Is the brain drain good for Africa? / William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko -- Taxation and skilled Indian migration to the United States : revisiting the Bhagwati tax / John McHale.
Foreign workers
Skilled labor
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration
Labor mobility
Business & Economics
Labor & Workers' Economics