The Accelerating Decline in America's High-skilled Workforce
Implications for Immigration Policy

Explores the dysfunctional state of US high-skilled immigration laws. This title recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States.

Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States. In recent decades, American skill levels have stagnated and struggled to make the global top 10. As baby boomers retire, the United States risks losing these skills altogether. In response, the United States should address high-skilled immigration in its broader foreign economic policies in attempt to remain a global leader in the face of accelerating global economic integration.

Introduction
1. High-skilled Workers Other Countries Running Faster, While US Standing Increasingly Still?
2. The US High-Skilled Immigration System As It Exists Today
3. The Necessary Welfare Trade-off US Software Workers and Why Quotas Are Particularly Bad at Labor Market Matching
4. Concluding Remarks What This Book Implies For Necessary Reforms of US High-Skilled Immigration Regulation.