High skilled immigrants are entrepreneurs, it would help ameliorate our long-run demographic problems, etc.
Where is the tirelessness of the market monetarists when it comes to high skilled immigration?
Nothing like the Bracero Program exists today but it could be created for low and high skilled workers.
Firms apply for more employment based green cards and temporary high skilled work visas when the economy is thriving.
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In the low skilled and high skilled sectors, in particular, there is very low unemployment and a huge demand for employees that are going unfilled.
It aims to strengthen border security while raising the cap on visas for high skilled workers and establishing a new visa program for low skilled workers on America's farms and elsewhere.
Mr. ALEX TABARROK (Professor, Economics, George Mason University): It's technology, computers and robots, which have raised the wages of high skilled workers and pushed down the wages of low skilled workers.
By 2010, despite the proportion of high skilled occupations rising to 28.3% of all jobs, the percentage of persons with degree qualifications who were in high skill occupations fell to 56.6%.
He also wants those multinationals to conduct as much research and high-value production in the UK as possible, because of the putative benefits brought from the creation of high skilled and highly rewarded employment.
In a 2010 post he writes about the tension between immigration and the social safety net, but again this does not apply to high skilled immigrants who make a stronger social safety net more affordable.
You can introduce some search and congestion effects to get higher unemployment but the increase should be relatively mild, as you have to remember that the opposite effect should be occurring in the high skilled market and low skilled folks be dropping out.
All of these statistics figured rather prominently in the Times Higher Education story, but perhaps the most interesting statistic is one which was buried half-way down, namely that the share of those with degree qualifications in high skilled occupations actually fell between 1993 and 2010.
Contrary to the claims of critics, studies show that comprehensive immigration reform, including both low-skilled and high-skilled workers, will result in job creation.
After all, if a low-skilled immigrant can outbid a high-skilled immigrant for the right to come here then chances are they think they are going to have reasonable earning power here.
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The bulk of jobs growth here will be in low to medium-skilled jobs, Sissons says, putting the technologies gleaned from high-skilled engineering into practice.
By outsourcing those low-skilled jobs to China, Americans have actually become more competitive in high-skilled jobs such as management, innovation and marketing.
In an economic downturn, low-skilled migrants may be the first to lose their jobs, but the high-skilled ones should survive, she says.
We can do this by opening the borders and letting in more high-skilled workers.
This is even more true if a large proportion of those taxpayers are high-skilled college graduates.
This should tell you what you already know: high-skilled immigration is good for this country.
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Much of our job growth will be found in high-skilled fields like health care and biotechnology.
This has deprived American businesses of thousands fewer high-skilled workers needed for the economic recovery.
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About two-thirds of the increase in private sector employment has been in high-skilled occupations.
Has he elaborated more on the case for high-skilled immigration recently and I have simply missed it?
Two reports out this week underscore the beneficial impact of more liberalized immigration, particularly for high-skilled immigrants.
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In years past, when Congress has added visas for high-skilled foreign workers, there have been bitter, public debates.
There have been several years of expansion in opportunities for graduates - with a growing demand for high-skilled employers.
Cruz would welcome more legal immigrants by expanding the high-skilled temporary worker program.
High-skilled workers don't want to compete with those from China, India or Pakistan.
So, Mark Zuckerberg, like everyone else in Silicon Valley, wants more high-skilled immigration.
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