Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements? Jonathan Portes

Introduction

There is a very significant tension at the heart of UK immigration policy. Basic economic intuition, as well as considerable empirical evidence, suggests that skilled immigrants will benefit the economy. In many innovation-intensive sectors, cross-border flows of people – and hence of ideas and knowledge – make important contributions to innovation.

IMPACIM powerpoint presentation

Presentation podcast

Download

Download BB-2012-Skills_Policy (PDF)

If you do not have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which is required to read this document, you can download it free from the Adobe Website.

Topics

Borders