"This is very worrying news at a time when highly skilled workers are losing their jobs in their thousands across the UK, " said Peter Skyte, the union's national officer for the IT sector.
Labor economist Vernon Briggs of Cornell University says it's harder to argue for legalizing millions of low-skilled immigrants when many more low-skilled Americans are likely to find themselves out of work.
The tool is particularly effective when employed by skilled traditional hunters, such as San bushmen in Botswana, some of whom were the first to use it.
What happens if and when the mobility of skilled labour rises too far to make these transfers feasible?
He believes India's response to the 1991 reforms owed a lot to the groundwork it laid in the 1980s and even earlier, when it acquired a skilled workforce and industrial experience, unharried by foreign competition.
Where is the tirelessness of the market monetarists when it comes to high skilled immigration?
Firms apply for more employment based green cards and temporary high skilled work visas when the economy is thriving.
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The Department of Labor has proposed dramatically expanding the information requested when employers seek to hire skilled foreign nationals on H-1B visas.
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And of course she is right about trade, but why does the logic fall apart when we allow high-skilled workers to move here?
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The overt advantage to China in hosting so many facilities is the technology transfer that occurs when Multi-National Corporations (MNC) hire Chinese employees to work in their labs, particularly when they are scientists or highly skilled engineers.
It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more efficiently be crowd-sourced to a larger group of people via the Internet.
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In years past, when Congress has added visas for high-skilled foreign workers, there have been bitter, public debates.
This shortfall is largely the result of the downturn in the 1980s, when few recruits were taken on and as skilled men retire, there are too few people to replace them.
It also helps to nurture skilled lieutenants who can take over your job when you move up the ladder.
But when it comes to high-end, high-skilled jobs, those are the kind of manufacturing jobs we have to go after.
Arguably, the rearmament of the early 1950s used up skilled labour and machinery at a crucial time, when Britain was struggling to recover from the second world war.
Some multinationals are taking a different tack, hiring as many as three workers for each skilled position, to ensure that replacements are on hand when trained workers die.
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And if you think managing inanimate commodities is tricky, try assuring an adequate supply of highly skilled personnel that take ten years to train, particularly when these human resources have numerous personal options, along with minds of their own.
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Burr said his group opposes such an exclusion because, even though unemployment in the construction industry is high right now, at times when it is low there can be labor shortages in high-skilled trades and contractors want to be able to bring in foreign workers.
While he refused to comment specifically on the findings of any report, he answered generally that the damning evidence of an investigation can look very different upon closer inspection and when it comes up against the counter-evidence produced by a skilled defense in a criminal trial.
Fleming admitted as much after the game with Sri Lanka when he named both their conquerors and Cup holders Australia as "more skilled than us".
The process also requires highly skilled technicians who know how to operate cloud measurement equipment in deciding when, where and how to disperse the pellets to yield maximum results.
When employers are calculating the prevailing wage for these workers, they suddenly become low skilled workers.
Even when immigrants do compete, they encourage more productive Americans to move into higher-skilled work.
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If one of the principal, stated rationalizations for this exercise is to expand the pool of personnel for the armed forces, it would be madness in time of war to be pursuing it when, on net, the effect will actually deprive it of far larger numbers of skilled, experienced troops and officers.
Mr. JOHN MIANO (Software Consultant): So when employers want an H1-B increase, they tell the public that these are highly skilled workers.
Skilled navigators, they plotted their course by the stars, ocean and clouds, at a time when god-fearing Europeans still believed that the Earth was flat and they might fall off it if they sailed too far.
The book includes 46 policy proposals, some of which even The Wall Street Journal favors: an immigration system that welcomes high-skilled workers, raising the Social Security retirement age, giving U.S. companies tax credits when they use funds to create American jobs, and a proposal to bring the corporate tax rate down to 28% from 35%.
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