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The Accelerating Decline in America's High-skilled Workforce
Implications for Immigration Policy
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- Policy Analyses in International Economics
- Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (author)
- Paperback, 227 x 159 x 9mm , 132 pp, Illustrations
- 15 Mar 2008
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- 0881324132
- 9780881324136
Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States. In recent decades, American skill levels have stagnated and struggled to make the global top 10. As baby boomers retire, the United States risks losing these skills altogether. In response, the United States should address high-skilled immigration in its broader foreign economic policies in attempt to remain a global leader in the face of accelerating global economic integration.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard has been a research associate at the Institute since 2002. Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; and Columbia University in New York. He is the coauthor of Transforming the European Economy (2004) and assisted with Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006).
Introduction; 1. High-skilled Workers Other Countries Running Faster, While US Standing Increasingly Still?; 2. The US High-Skilled Immigration System As It Exists Today; 3. The Necessary Welfare Trade-off US Software Workers and Why Quotas Are Particularly Bad at Labor Market Matching; 4. Concluding Remarks What This Book Implies For Necessary Reforms of US High-Skilled Immigration Regulation.
