This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission and the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on “Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe”. This document has been produced with the...

The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical model demonstrating that this phenomenon is an artifact of policy design: When the government...

Theoretical arguments and previous country‐level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing skill shortages across countries, occupation groups and industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- "Brain Gain" What's in the Name? Opportunities and Challenges of Highly Skilled Immigration -- The Historical Treatment of Skilled Immigrants in US Immigration Legislation -- Definitions and Demographics: Highly Skilled Workers in the United...

Deutschland wird auch in Zukunft ein bedeutendes Zuwanderungsziel in Europa sein. Angesichts der längerfristigen Arbeitsmarkterfordernisse und der EU-Osterweiterung wird aber in der Öffentlichkeit eine verstärkte Steuerung von Immigrationen diskutiert. Das neue Zuwanderungsgesetz erkennt zum...