Pt.1: The immigration process -- Ch. 1: Nation skilling: immigration, labour and the law / Mary Crock and Ben Saul -- Ch. 2: Australian immigration: grasping the new reality / Phillip Ruddock -- Ch. 3: A comparative look at immigration and human capital assessment / Stephen Yale-Loehr and Christoph Hoashi-Erhardt -- Ch. 4: Contract or compact: skilled migration and the dictates of politics and ideology / Mary E. Crock -- Ch. 5: US immigration policy: Admission of high skilled workers / Susan Martin, B. Lindsay Lowell and Philip Martin -- Pt. 2: Business and migrant workers -- Ch. 6: Migration and demography: global and Australian trends and issues for policy makers, business and employers / Graeme Hugo -- Ch. 7: Australian labour law, migration and the performance of work / Ron McCallum -- Ch. 8: Taxation of expatriate employees in Australia / Richard Vann -- Ch. 9: Internationalisation of the professions and mobility of labour / Roby Iredale -- Ch. 10: Migration, citizenship and the right to work: recognition of overseas medical qualifications in Australia / Margaret Allars -- Index
Summary
Skilled migration is rapidly rising as countries vie for the best and brightest migrants to add to their stock of 'knowledge workers'. Within this context, the way in which Australia seeks to attract skilled permanent and temporary migrants is put under the spotlight in this very timely publication
Analysis
Australia overseas comparisons
Business migration
Illegal immigrants
Skilled migration
Statistics
United States
Migration - Legal (Australia ) Federal/national government Immigration & nationality law
Notes
A selection of papers from the Nation skilling conference
