Gordon Hanson Presents at the American Enterprise Institute Conference
Competing for Talent: The United States and High-Skilled Immigration
01/31/2012
American Enterprise Institute
Politicians often call for actions to enhance U.S. competitiveness and chide their political rivals for pursuing policies contrary to that purpose. Meanwhile, segments of the academic community have largely written off national competitiveness as meaningless. Economist Paul Krugman went so far as to say that "the obsession with competitiveness is not only wrong but dangerous." In light of the academic challenge to the notion of competitiveness, AEI has gathered experts to research the value of the concept of competitiveness in different spheres.
High-skilled immigration is one area where the concept of competitiveness may be quite valuable, as immigration policies have the potential to affect a country's competitiveness. How does the United States fare in the global competition for talent, and what policy changes could tip the scales in the United States' favor? This AEI conference will be the last of a three-part series; papers from the series will be published as an AEI book this fall.
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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).
