Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.

Trachtman examines the welfare economics, political economy, and legal experience in international economic migrationm, and on the basis of his analysis, suggests the structure of a multilateral framework agreement on internatinoal economic migration.