Chapter 1: Immigrant Work Integration: A Wicked Problem -- Chapter 2: The Sensemaking Perspective -- Chapter 3: The Immigrant Sensemaker -- Chapter 4: Powerful Interactions for Integration -- Chapter 5: Organizing for Immigrant Workforce Integration -- Chapter 6: The Macro Context of Immigration...

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus among academics that the share of immigrants in the workforce has little or no effect on the pay rates of the indigenous population. But the studies in the literature have...

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...