Sentences with phrase «of skilled immigrants»

Governments work together to support the global mobility of labour and recognise the contribution of skilled immigrants to societies;

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

Modeled on similar systems in use in Australia and New Zealand, Express Entry aims to fast track the processing of skilled immigrants deemed most likely to succeed in Canada.

The word means literally a flowing - in — an inflow of capital, of skilled immigrants and other labor, of technology, and of foreign support.

When I became an academic and joined Duke University in 2005, it was this diversity that inspired me to take a look at the impact of skilled immigrants on U.S. competitiveness.

It became an icon base of skilled immigrant workers and labor strife culminating in the 1913 Paterson silk strike.

Not exact matches

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

The H1B highly skilled immigrant visa is limited to 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees — not much when you consider that U.S. universities pump out 1 science graduate for every five China does.

A policy shift toward more skills - based immigration would probably result in a larger fraction of immigrants coming from Asia and a smaller fraction from Latin America, not a large shift toward Europe, and certainly not toward Norway.

Of course, some Cuban immigrants became more than just low - skilled laborers.

These companies hope to see an expanded H - 1B visa program, the creation of visas for immigrants who show proof of VC backing, and a clearer path to citizenship for high - skilled workers who are here illegally.

In contrast, immigrants who come from diverse backgrounds with a range of skills - such as the 800,000 dreamers - tend to produce greater economic benefits.

While all of these changes - including cutting the overall volume of immigration and reducing immigrant diversity - will make U.S. workers worse off, the English requirement is likely to be particularly harmful to U.S. workers, especially low - skilled ones.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

The U.S. should listen to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, whose 2013 study «Filling the Gap» argues in favor of the U.S. allowing more «low - skilled» immigrants to come here legally.

Trump has focused on an «America first» agenda when it comes to skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.

Not every immigrant is skilled, of course.

When the bulk of our immigration laws were revised in the early 1990s, the intention was to accommodate more highly skilled immigrants who worked in large, conventionally structured businesses.

Further to the issue of skills shortages, the government has announced the re-allocation of $ 4 million for a «labour market information portal» and another $ 7 million to «support the relocation of youth and immigrants to areas where job opportunities exist.»

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.

They understand that any law relaxing rules for illegals has no hope of Republican support unless it is yoked to skilled - immigrant reform.

The annual cap of 85,000 H - 1B visas for high - skilled workers applies only to immigrants who work at companies.

A bunch of other Silicon Valley types are planning to launch a well - funded political - advocacy group to lobby for more visas for skilled immigrants.

More than 50 per cent of Canada's current immigrants are highly educated and skilled.

Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

This is one of the most significant barriers to employment for skilled immigrants.

Further, we must make a concerted effort to attract skilled workers into those industries that are currently suffering labour shortages, and encourage the migration of new immigrants to centres beyond Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

We must do more than open the door to immigrants - we must make Canada the destination of choice for talented people with skills, energy and drive.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

«Canada's future prosperity will increasingly depend on our ability to remain a destination of choice for skilled immigrants,» notes Shari Austin, vice-president, Corporate Citizenship, RBC and executive director, RBC Foundation, «We need to support newcomers, both in terms of funding employment and in fulfilling their entrepreneurial ambitions.

Skilled immigrants send a lot of money back to their families in the originating country.

It seems, however, that Canada is missing the opportunity of harnessing the real skills of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, while waiting for our graduates to get up to speed.

Like the audience at Austin's talk, many of these newcomers are economic immigrants, meaning they have the skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and abilities to contribute to the Canadian economy.

These quality lights are the creation of Tony Maglica, a Croatian immigrant who used his machinist skills to build a business in his Los Angeles garage.

Any one of these would help address the skills gap — the inability of willing employers to find workers with the right skills and qualifications — by enabling qualified, job - creating immigrant entrepreneurs to open more U.S. businesses.

As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose.

It favors a bill that increases the number of future low - skill immigrants relative to the number of future high - skill immigrants.

The name, Berlinerkranser, she says, could be related to a history of German immigrants bringing their baking skills into Norway, as well as Scandinavians going to Germany to study the trade.

«Sean Coffey, son of Irish immigrants, a decorated Navy veteran and skilled advocate, seems like that man.»

Sajid Javid, the current secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant who worked in the mills of the north before becoming a bus driver.

Jenny serves as the Board Chair of the Chinese - American Planning Council (CPC) whose mission is to serve the Chinese - American, immigrant and low - income communities in New York City by providing services, skills and resources towards economic self - sufficiency.

Highly skilled immigrants are a significant share of the work force in medicine, in academia, in engineering and in other technology industries, all of which involve jobs disproportionately located in large urban areas.

Ukip's poster campaign suggesting that builders are being forced out of work by immigrants was looking shakey today, after the building industry reported a widespread shortage of skilled workers.

There are a ton of statistics that show we have skilled students out of college in the STEM fields that can't find jobs because many are held by lower paid legal immigrants and visa holders.»

Contemporary news reports suggest that the administration believed that a full work permit scheme would have been unnecessarily expensive and cumbersome to operate, and that immigrants would help fill some of the existing skills shortages, without impacting significantly on wages or the welfare state.

The Dominican Republic native alluded to the rainstorms that have deluged his home country — a symptom of climate change, Espaillat said, a phenomena Pruitt doubts exists — and to Sessions» assertions that immigrants from the Hispanic island lack the skills to contribute to U.S. society

The event takes place on the second Sunday of each October, to remember the immigrant general whose skill and bravery on the battlefield proved decisive for several important battles in the fight for our nation's independence.

London First wants the cap to be scrapped and replaced with the former points system, where would - be immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) who want to work in Britain are awarded points based on their skills and the needs of the economy.