Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview of the Chapters Barry R. Chiswick Part I: Historical Perspective Chapter 1: A Historical Perspective on High-Skilled Immigrants to the Untied States, 1820-1920 Joseph P. Ferrie Chapter 2: Rights-Based Politics, Immigration, and the Business Cycle, 1890-2008 James F. Hollifield and Carole J. Wilson Part II: From Temporary to Permanent Status Chapter 3: Trends in Foreigh-Student Admission to the United States B. Lindsay Lowell and Pramod Khadka Part III: The Adjustment of Hight-Skilled Immigrants Chapter 4: Educational Mismatch Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller Chapter 5: Physician Migration to the Untied States and Canada Linda G. Lesky Chapter 6: Earnings, Occupations, and Schooling Decisions of Immigrants with Medical Degrees James Ted McDonald, Casey Warman, and Christopher Worswick Part IV: High-Skilled Immigrants: Impact and Policy Chapter 7: High Skilled Immigration Volker Grossman and David Stadelmann Chapter 8: High-Skilled Russian Immigrants in the Israeli Labor Market Sarit Cohen-Goldner and Yoram Weiss Chapter 9: High Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann Appendix: The Policy Panel Index About the Authors

About the Author

Barry R. Chiswick is a distinguished professor in the department of economics and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the winner of the 2011 IZA Prize in Labor Economics.