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1 Introduction and Overview
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... There has been little quantitative analysis comparing the effectiveness of measures taken by advanced economies in attracting highly skilled migrants and few studies on the impact of immigration on domestic wages, the supply of native-born citizens with similar qualifications, and other labor market conditions, let alone a review of their implications for the United States. In 2009, the German Marshall Fund (GMF)
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... Some recent reports have argued that a liberalized immigration policy for students and skilled workers would improve economic welfare in the United States by adding to the pool of those that are trained in key academic disciplines and by fueling the creation and growth of new technology-based com 3 4 panies. A 2001 NRC report, Building A Workforce for the Information Econo 5 my , recommended that the green card process be streamlined and that foreign workers be given flexibility to change jobs.
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... For example, the OECD defines a high-skill immigrant as one who has a 7 post-secondary degree or certificate. Other countries define high-skilled immigrants by occupation, as is the case with the H-1B visa program in the United States.
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... , a nongovernmental public body created to provide evidencebased advice to the government on immigration issues, whose role is comparable to the role of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in providing scientific and technical advice to the government. A presentation on New Zealand showed similarities between the Australian and New Zealand immigration systems, although one difference between the two countries is that New Zealand has had greater difficulty attracting skilled migrants and has had difficulty retaining native-born and migrant STEM workers.


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