July 23rd, 2008

A Reverse Brain-Drain

Posted in  Technology 
Author: Solveig Singleton || Location: Washington, DC, USA

This study came out a while back but is worth noting--the phenomena of those educated in the U.S. but squeezed out by the legal difficulties of staying:
 
A Kauffman Foundation study finds: More than one million skilled immigrant workers, including scientists, engineers, doctors and researchers and their families, are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a "reverse brain-drain" with skilled workers returning to their home country...