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

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
  

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

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

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

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

PANEL 5: POLICY IMPLICATIONS: A PANEL DISCUSSION

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

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