Employers represent a different story: they are attracted to low-tax states, particularly if they don't need high-skilled labor.
New technologies need high-skilled workers.
Yes, we do need high-skilled immigrants because we don't have enough qualified workers.
"We need high-skilled immigration reform, especially as we face labor shortages in areas like engineering, medicine, and science," Feinblatt said in a statement.
The Survivor Auction: American employers desperately need high-skilled workers, but the H-1B visa is capped at 85,000 professionals.
But this sends out the wrong message, when the economy most needs high-skilled scientists," Bell says.
Germany needs high-skilled immigrants to cope with demographic change and a migration policy that is in line with Germany's economic interests (Schneider and Zimmermann, [2010]).
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- hardly an ally of President Obama -- sees investments in early learning as critical for both the business community, which needs high-skilled workers, and a strong economy, since middle-class workers spend money to keep the economy humming.
Insisting on the need for high-skilled workers avoids the fact that the economy has a structural need for low-skilled labor.
Insisting on the need for high-skilled workers — Indian engineers in Silicon Valley, for example — avoids the fact that the economy has a structural need for low-skilled labor.
