Skilled immigration today : prospects, problems, and policies / edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon Hanson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhagwati, Jagdish N., 1934-

Hanson, Gordon H. (Gordon Howard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers.

Skilled labor--Supply and demand.

Skilled labor.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Labor mobility.

Physical Description:

xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 Overview of Issues / Jagdish Bhagwati 3

I Underlying Trends and Policy Changes in Receiving Countries

Labor Markets and Demographics

2 Supply of and Demand for Skilled Labor in the United States / Lynn A. Karoly, Constantijn W. A. Panis 15

3 Skilled-Labor Mobility in Postwar Europe / L. Alan Winters 53

4 Public Finance in an Era of Global Demographic Change: Fertility Busts, Migration Booms, and Public Policy / David E. Wildasin 81

Changing Policies and Selection Criteria

5 Skilled Immigration to America: U.S. Admission Policies in the 21st Century / Susan Martin, B. Lindsay Lowell, Micah Bump 131

6 Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration / Guillermina Jasso, Mark R. Rosenzweig 153

7 The Role of Professional Societies in Regulating Entry of Skilled Migrants: The American Medical Association / Sherry A. Glied, Debojyoti Sarkar 184

8 Individual Preferences over High-Skilled Immigration in the United States / Gordon Hanson, Kenneth Scheve, Matthew J. Slaughter 207

II Effects on Source Countries

Overview

9 Skilled Immigration: The Perspective of Developing Countries / Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport 247

10 Income Taxation and Skilled Migration: The Analytical Issues / John Douglas Wilson 285

African Template: The Return of the Brain Drain

11 Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa? / William Easterly, Yaw Nyarko 316

Indian Template: Taxation

12 Taxation and Skilled Indian Migration to the United States: Revisiting the Bhagwati Tax / John McHale 362.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195382433

0195382439

OCLC:

234073815