EMAIL: While I tend to agree with your analysis of looming worker shortages, I wonder if your firm's research has shown what impacts we can expect in the future from immigrant workers? I work at a research center that studies globalization phenomenon, one of which is global migration patterns. Historically and with an exponential increase during the past 20 years, immigrant workers have been fulfilling much of the "gap" for the US when it comes to intellectual workers. Every major tech firm, financial firm, and university in the US employs highly educated immigrants workers. Many conduct global searches for top-end positions. I argue with my director that the number of immigrant workers can't possibly backfill the departing boomers. He, a respected urban and regional researcher, feels that global migration patterns, specifically highly educated individuals from developing countries looking to come to the US for high paying jobs, are meeting the demand. In brief searches I've been unable to find good statistics that qualify either rationale. Any thoughts?
Good statistics are hard to come by. Readers, what do you know? What role will immigrants play in the US's expected labor shortage? What sources do you use to predict? And what impact are knowledge workers from other countries having on your communities?
Comments
