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Immigrant Workers and the Workforce Development System in the United Kingdom
England's employer-led skills system helps some immigrants incidentally, but complexity and austerity-driven cuts leave those most in need least likely to participate.
Maximizing Potential: How Countries Can Address Skills Deficits within the Immigrant Workforce
More than ever, human capital is seen as the ultimate resource. As a result, policymakers face the challenge of ensuring that workers have the skills and abilities to find productive employment and contribute to growth, innovation, and competitiveness in constantly evolving labor markets. Migrants’ skills are often seen as an untapped resource that, with the right formula of policies, can bolster competitiveness and fuel productivity.
Pensando Regionalmente para Competir Globalmente: Aprovechar la Migración y el Capital Humano en Estados Unidos, México y Centroamérica
La reforma migratoria de EE.UU. con visas flexibles y legalización, apoyada por inversión regional en capital humano, es clave para la competitividad de toda la región.
Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
Foreign professionals remain excluded from licensed occupations by real skills gaps—not just poor information—demanding more affordable and flexible retraining in immigrant-receiving countries.
Shaping Our Futures: The Educational and Career Success of Washington State’s Immigrant Youth
Washington State's immigrant youth show a stark achievement gap: college attainment is high in some groups, but only 53 percent of English Learners graduate on time.
Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: A New View on Migration and Human Capital for the United States, Mexico, and Central America
A panel discussion for the release of the Regional Migration Study Group's final report, featuring high-level former U.S., Mexican, and Guatemalan government officials.
Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Leveraging Migration & Human Capital in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America
Shifting demographics and slowing emigration from Mexico and Central America demand a new U.S. regional strategy, this final report of the Regional Migration Study Group makes clear.
The Integration Needs of Mobile EU Citizens: Impediments and opportunities
Mobile EU citizens share many integration needs with third-country nationals yet fall outside EU integration policy, leaving gaps policymakers have yet to close.
Pushouts, Shutouts, and Holdouts: Adult Education Pathways of Latino Young Adults
A study of Latino immigrants in New York City found that the school interruptions of most reflected structural and economic barriers rather than disinterest in education.
The Centrality of Employment in Immigrant Integration in Europe
Europe's integration debate fixates on culture, but the real failure is employment policy's inability to incorporate immigrants into the economy across generations.