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.