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- Title
Recruiting High Skill Labour in North America: Policies, Outcomes and Futures.
- Authors
Boyd, Monica
- Abstract
This article compares Canadian and US recruitment of highly skilled workers, defined by educational, skill, and occupational criteria. Analysis shows that Canada disproportionally recruits skilled workers as legal permanent residents whereas family reunification dominates in the US. But such contrast ignores the large temporary skilled worker flows to the US and the on-going reliance on them, or the growing use of temporary labour in Canada, including skilled workers. Data is presented on the admission of skilled migrants; recent and future policy developments are discussed. Comprehensive immigration reform is back on the US agenda with potential to increase the migration of skilled immigrants, to utilize a point system for some, and to continue the role of employers in the H1B visa programme. Canada has recently moved to a model of high skill labour recruitment that is characterized by decentralized selection mechanisms, and is demand driven and employer instigated.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; SKILLED labor; UNITED States immigration policy; EDUCATION of immigrants; EMPLOYEE recruitment; PERMANENT residents (Immigrants); IMMIGRATION reform -- Social aspects; GOVERNMENT policy; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
International Migration, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 3, p40
- ISSN
0020-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/imig.12139