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UK – Skills Gap: Recruiters search abroad
A skills gap in the UK is driving demand for immigration professionals to source staff from abroad. A focus group study of more than 50 immigration professionals working across the sector commissioned by recruiter JAM revealed that Asia is the most popular talent hunting ground for UK organisations. Skills shortages in the UK are the … Continue reading
New Australia visa policy: Malaysia fears brain drain
The new visa policy in Australia allows foreign graduates to apply for residency in the country and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan argued that it could lead to widespread brain drain, deficits and an exodus of young people from the country. The new visa rules to be put in place next year by Australia will grant … Continue reading
The Talent War – Skilled international workers in high demand: recruitment executive
According to this index, which the company has been generating since 2008, the job market for these workers has remained relatively strong and steady in East … Link: http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?cpv=0&ud=20120618001286
NZ brain drain in decline
When Australian growth figures were released a fortnight ago, many in New Zealand sighed and carried on: the cross-Tasman brain drain – now 1000 people a week – was clearly set to continue apace. But will it? New Zealand’s national character could fairly be categorised as Scottish Protestant. It is a culture that easily lends … Continue reading
Crossroads: The Psychology of Immigration in the 21st Century
The United States today has approximately 39.9 million immigrants—the largest number in its history. As a nation of immigrants, the United States has successfully negotiated larger proportions of newcomers in its past and is far from alone among postindustrial countries in experiencing a growth in immigration in recent decades. Notably, nearly three quarters of the … Continue reading
Brain Drain | India top exporter of skilled immigrants to Australia
India has climbed to the top of the charts as the top source country for skilled permanent migrants to Australia. Chris Bowen, the Australian immigration minister who is visiting India, told TOI, “The strongest link between Australia and India is peopleto-people through immigration . India has for several years been our third largest source of … Continue reading
UPDATE – Indian Brain Drain | A law to curb it is coming
Compulsory Brain Drain : Indian Doctors should come back after Higher studies in the US | Asian Correspondent Any doctor who is going to the US for higher medical studies will have to sign a bond with the government that they will return back after their studies. Universities across the US will ask for this … Continue reading
Indian Brain Drain | A law to curb it is coming
With doctors increasingly preferring to migrate to greener pastures abroad, the Government is in the process of tightening of norms to curb this disturbing trend that has left the Indian medical system ailing. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said that the Ministry is working to make the laws stringent wherein any doctor going … Continue reading
India | Reverse Brain Drain | Who’s Coming Back and Why?
India’s faltering growth may be disappointing, but it’s still much more rapid than the continued stagnation of the U.S. economy. In certain fields, at least there are still opportunities to be seized in India by those with a taste for adventure. Labor economists call this kind of migration the “reverse brain drain.” Ironically, the migrants … Continue reading
U.S. | Reverse Brain Drain | More U.S. Children of Immigrants Are Leaving
In growing numbers, experts say, highly educated children of immigrants to the United States are uprooting themselves and moving to their ancestral countries. They are embracing homelands that their parents once spurned but that are now economic powers. Some have arrived in the United States as young children, becoming citizens, while others were born in the … Continue reading
Immigrants | Job growth quicker than native-born Americans
Immigrants are experiencing a faster rate of job growth than native-born Americans in the economic recovery, data show. “It seems that the rate of unemployment for immigrants is slightly lower than for the native group,” said Jeanne Batalova, a policy analyst with the Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute, which analyzed employment data for the region … Continue reading
Canada | Skilled workers program changes will deter future immigrants
Canada’s decision to close the files of skilled workers who applied to immigrate before March 2008 will give the country a black eye and deter future immigrants with needed skills, according to a Vancouver immigration lawyer. The federal government plans to return applications and refund fees for nearly everyone who applied under the program before … Continue reading
Skills Gap | U.S. | Demand Rises for Skilled-Worker Visas
In a sign of the improving economy, the U.S. government said it saw a sharp rise in petitions for skilled-foreign-worker visas during the first week of this year’s application season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since April 2, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire … Continue reading
UK | Skilled migrant cap frozen for two years
The British government has bowed to pressure from business by pledging to freeze the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK for two years. The annual limit on skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area will remain at 20,700 until April 2014, the Home Office said on Wednesday. Independent advisers … Continue reading
Immigrant Workers in the U.S. Labor Force in Charts
Debates about illegal immigration, border security, skill levels of workers, unemployment, job growth and competition, and entrepreneurship all rely, to some extent, on perceptions of immigrants’ role in the U.S. labor market. These views are often shaped as much by politics and emotion as by facts. To better frame these debates, this short analysis provides … Continue reading
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