Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers: Summary of a Workshop (2015)

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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR TALENT

National Academies Keck Center
500 5th Street NW, Room 100
Washington, DC 20001

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
1:00PMWELCOME
Stephen Merrill, Director Emeritus, STEP Board
INTRODUCTION
Jennifer Hunt, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University
1:15PMSKILLED MIGRATION IN A WORLD OF GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES
Keynote speaker: Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; and Director, Science and Engineering Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research
1:45PMAUDIENCE Q&A
2:15PMPANEL 1: SKILLED MIGRATION TRENDS AND POLICY EVOLUTION: A MULTILATERAL OVERVIEW

Chair Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University Presentations:

  • Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International
    Migration Division, Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Discussants: Mark Giralt, Minister-Counsellor for Immigration, Embassy of Canada; Miranda Lauman, Acting Director, Americas, Embassy of Australia

3:15PMAUDIENCE Q&A
3:25PMBREAK
3:40PMPANEL 2A: COMPARATIVE SYSTEM DESIGN AND EFFECTS: Canada and Europe

Chair: Subhash Singhal, Battelle Fellow Emeritus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Presentations:

  • Charles Beach, Emeritus Professor, Queen’s University
  • Madeline Zavodny, Professor of Economics, Agnes Scott College
  • Jonathan Wadsworth, Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London

Discussant: Francis Cissna, Director of Immigration Policy, Department of Homeland Security

4:50PMAUDIENCE Q&A
5:30PMRECEPTION, Keck Center, 2nd floor prefunction area
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
8:30AMPANEL 2B: COMPARATIVE SYSTEM DESIGN AND EFFECTS: Australia, Middle East & Asia

Chair: Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University
Presentations:

  • Graeme Hugo, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography; Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide
  • Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Professor, International Workforce, University of Melbourne, Victoria

Discussant: Ana Maria Mayda, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

9:30AMAUDIENCE Q&A
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10:00AMBREAK
10:15AMPANEL 3: FLOWS OF STUDENTS, COMPUTER WORKERS, & ENTREPRENEURS

Chair: Paula Stephan, Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Presentations:

  • Lesleyanne Hawthorne, University of Melbourne, Victoria
  • Jean-Christophe Dumont, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Lindsay Lowell, Director of Policy Studies, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
11:25PMAUDIENCE Q&A
12:00PMLUNCH
1:15PM

PANEL 4: IMMIGRATION EFFECTS ON INNOVATION AND LABOR MARKETS

Chair: Ellen R. Dulberger, Managing Partner, Ellen Dulberger Enterprises, LLC
Presentations:

  • Daniele Paserman, Professor of Economics, Boston University
  • Herbert Brücker, Professor of Economics, University of Bamberg; Head, Department for International Comparisons and European Integration, Institute for Employment Research (Nuremberg)
  • William Kerr, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Discussant: William Lincoln, Assistant Professor of International Economics, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

2:30PMAUDIENCE Q&A
3:00PMBREAK
3:15PM

PANEL 5: POLICY IMPLICATIONS: A PANEL DISCUSSION

Chair: Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

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Discussants:

  • Felicia Escobar, Special Assistant to the President on Immigration, White House
  • William Kamela, Senior Federal Policy Lead, Workforce Readiness and Immigration, Microsoft Corporation
  • Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  • Madeleine Sumption, Director of International Research, Migration Policy Institute
  • Michael Teitelbaum, Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard University
4:30PMAUDIENCE Q &A
5:00PMADJOURN
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