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Soft, Scarce, and Super Skills: Sourcing the Next Generation of Migrant Workers in Europe
European migration systems must look beyond formal qualifications to attract scarce, soft, and super skills for future competitiveness.
USCIS Receives 163,000 H-1B Applications for Fiscal Year 2009
Employers filed approximately 163,000 H-1B petitions in five days for fiscal year 2009, more than twice the 65,000 annual cap, forcing a computer lottery to select winners.
Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications
Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.
The Complexities of Immigration: Why Western Countries Struggle with Immigration Politics and Policies
Global migration more than doubled between 1970 and 2002, and Western governments face ideological tensions on both the left and right that block effective policymaking.
Little Job Growth Makes Labor Migration and Remittances the Norm in Post-Soviet Armenia
In post-Soviet Armenia, weak job creation and persistent poverty have made labor migration and large remittance inflows a central pillar of household survival.
The Proposed European Blue Card System: Arming for the Global War for Talent?
The European Union’s Blue Card proposal exposes tensions between common rules, national control, and the deeper reforms needed to attract highly skilled workers.
Wanted More Than Ever: The Highly Skilled
The EU Blue Card proposal marked 2007's boldest move in a global race to attract skilled migrants.
Canada's Temporary Migration Program: A Model Despite Flaws
Canada's seasonal farmworker program recorded a low overstay rate and development gains.
Causes of South-South Migration and Its Socioeconomic Effects
South-South migrants gain a lower increase in wages than South-North migrants, yet many have no alternative but to move within the developing world.
How Los Angeles Deflected Mexican Immigrants to the American Heartland
In the 1990s, Mexican immigrants began to leave California, Texas, and Illinois for the so-called new settlement states where they had not previously resided. As Ivan Light of UCLA explains, their reasons for leaving or bypassing Los Angeles were both economic and political.