The accelerating decline in America's high-skilled workforce : implications for immigration policy / Jacob Funk Kirkegaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkegaard, Jacob F.

Series:

Policy analyses in international economics ; 84.

Policy analyses in international economics ; 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skilled labor--United States.

Skilled labor.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States. In recent decades American skill levels have stagnated and struggled to make the global top 10. As baby boomers retire, the United States risks losing these skills altogether. In response, the United States should address high-skilled immigration in its broader foreign economic policies in an attempt to remain a global leader in the face of accelerating global economic integration.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 High-Skilled Workers: Stagnating in the United States, Rising Fast in Other Countries?

Size and Educational Attainment of Resident US Population

Size and Educational Characteristics of Foreign-Born Populations in Rich Countries

High-Skilled Workers in Science and Engineering

Global High-Skilled Talent: An Increasingly Sought After Resource

Chapter 2 Current US High-Skilled Immigration System

Permanent High-Skilled Immigration

Temporary High-Skilled Immigration

Chapter 3 Welfare Trade-Off, US Software Workers, and Immigration Quotas

Welfare Economic Efficiency Versus Equity Trade-Off

Software Workers: The Most Affected High-Skilled Americans

Matching Employers with Foreign High-Skilled Workers

Chapter 4 A Reform Package

Summary of Findings

Implications and Recommendations for Reform

Statistical Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-126) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-12516-4

9786611125165

0-88132-484-1

1-4356-1644-8

OCLC:

614593813