B. Lindsay Lowell
B. Lindsay Lowell is part of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. He was previously Director of Research at the Congressionally appointed Commission on Immigration Reform where he was also Assistant Director for the Mexico/U.S. Binational Study on Migration. He has been Research Director at the Pew Hispanic Center of the University of Southern California, a Labor Analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor; and he taught at Princeton University and the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent Activity
Debates on immigration policy often discuss calibrating immigration levels to meet the labor needs of the nation’s economy. Indeed, it is clear that immigration strongly affects U.S. labor markets – over the past thirty years, foreign-born workers have grown to record numbers.
B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University sketches the big picture of skilled migration, touching on both negative impacts and positive feedback for developing states.