Talent, Competitiveness and Migration
As the global economic crisis ripples across the financial, political, and social landscape, it is leaving its mark on international migration. The recession, hailed as the worst since the Great Depression, is impacting the scope and pace of international migration and its effects could deepen should the world economy worsen.
Governments, businesses, and individuals have all felt the damaging consequences of the global downturn, which has shaken confidence in established institutions. The crisis is driving some policymakers and analysts in Europe and North America to rethink their assumptions about labor migration. Yet while policymakers face exceptionally strong popular and political outcry to protect jobs at home, they face mid-term demographic challenges. These two opposing policy pressures require responses that will not only help ease the current economic crisis, but will also secure the long-term prosperity of these regions.
This book reflects the effort of the Transatlantic Council on Migration to map how profound demographic change is likely to affect the size and character of global migration flows, and how governments can shape immigration policy in a world increasingly attuned to the hunt for talent. This volume is the second major product of the Council.
Part I: The Transatlantic Council on Migration
Introduction: The Aims of the Transatlantic Council on Migration
Transatlantic Council on Migration
Council Statement: Responding Competitively to the New Mobility of the 21st Century
Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Annette Heuser
Part II: Piecing Together the Global Demographic Puzzle
Emerging Demographic Trends in Asia and the Pacific: The Implications for International Migration
Graeme Hugo
The Demography of China and India: Effect on Migration to High-Income Countries through 2030
Michael J. White and Inku Subedi
Emerging Demographic Patterns across the Mediterranean and their Implications for Migration through 2030
Philippe Fargues
Demographic and Human-Capital Trends in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov and Samir K.C.
Demographic Trends in Mexico: The Implications for Skilled Migration
Elena Zúñiga and Miguel Molina
Part III: Competing for Talent
Talent in the 21st Century Economy
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Will Somerville and Hiroyuki Tanaka
Hybrid Immigrant-Selection Systems: The Next Generation of Economic Migration Schemes
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Will Somerville and Hiroyuki Tanaka
Soft, Scarce and Super Skills: Sourcing the Next Generation of Migrant Workers in Europe
Elizabeth Collett and Fabian Zuleeg
The Growing Global Demand for Students as Skilled Migrants
Lesleyanne Hawthorne
Part IV: Epilogue
Immigration and Competitiveness at a Time of Deepening Recession
Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Part V: Discussion Summary
Second Meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration
Transatlantic Council on Migration
