Employment-Based Immigration

Explore all research, analysis, commentary, and data on the employment-based pathways that countries use to bring in workers.

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Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with U.S. Labor Market Needs: The Case for a New System of Provisional Visas

This paper outlines MPI’s design of a flexible provisional visa that would tie temporary labor inflows to real-time demand while offering workers who meet clear criteria pathways to stay.

Harnessing the Advantages of Immigration for a 21st-Century Economy: A Standing Commission on Labor Markets, Economic Competitiveness, and Migration

A permanent expert commission using evidence to flexibly guide U.S. employment-based immigration levels would strengthen the country’s economic competitiveness.

Talent, Competitiveness and Migration

Immigration and the Labour Market: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Immigration's average wage effects are small. Policies protecting vulnerable workers and supporting long-term growth deliver better outcomes than broad restrictions on immigration.

Immigration in the United Kingdom: The Recession and Beyond

Recession reduced new immigration to the United Kingdom and hit recently arrived migrants hardest, highlighting the need for flexible labor policy and integration.

Migration and the Economic Downturn: What to Expect in the European Union

EU migration is likely to slow during recessions, though continue as long as opportunity gaps between origin and destination countries persist.

Talent, Competitiveness, and Migration (Transatlantic Council Statement)

Advanced economies need coherent strategies that align migration policy, education, and the labor market while investing in integration and avoiding zero-sum competition.

Demography and Migration Flows: Do Shrinking Populations Mean More Migrants?

Demographic pressure is prompting historic shifts in places such as Japan.

The Recession-Proof Race for Highly Skilled Migrants

Gloomy economic forecasts have not slowed the global hunt for highly skilled migrants.

Demographic Trends in Mexico: The Implications for Skilled Migration

Mexico's professional labor supply is outpacing domestic demand, driving skilled emigration to the United States and risking long-term economic harm for the sending country.