Completed
Regional focus
North America
Topics
A Fall 2014 workshop and resulting proceedings publication focused on how immigration policy can be used to attract and retain foreign talent. Participants compared policies on encouraging migration and retention of skilled workers, attracting qualified foreign students and retaining them post-graduation, and input by states or provinces in immigration policies to add flexibility in countries with regional employment differences, among other topics. They also discussed how immigration policies have changed over time in response to undesired labor market outcomes and whether there was sufficient data to measure those outcomes.
Events
International Comparative Study of High-Skilled Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for Talent
- September 22 - 23, 2014
- Workshop
- Past
The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion...