Tackling Brain Waste Among Immigrant Professionals: Initiatives to Improve the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications
Immigration
and the circulation of skilled professionals has become a major source
of human capital in the United States and across the advanced
industrialized world. Despite this reality, internationally mobile
workers are often unable to put their skills and experience obtained
abroad to good use. The resulting waste of human capital represents a loss to employers, destination economies, and immigrants themselves.
This
event will bring together experts and policymakers from both sides of
the Atlantic to discuss what governments can do to improve the
recognition of foreign credentials — particularly in regulated
occupations where time-consuming and expensive licensing processes can
substantially delay access to skilled employment. The discussion will
highlight promising practices from abroad, asking what US policymakers
can learn from European innovations in qualifications recognition and
how international cooperation can help — both across the Atlantic and
further afield.
The
event will conclude a two-year research initiative at the Migration
Policy Institute on the recognition of foreign qualifications in the
United States and Europe, funded by the Delegation of the European Union
in the United States. It will also launch the project’s final report,
which focuses on international cooperation for the mutual recognition of
foreign credentials.
Watch it now life here: http://events.powerstream.net/002/00592/2012-MPI-PowerPlay/?contid=20131212-TacklingBrainWasteamongImmigrantProfessionalsInitiativestoImprovetheRecognitionofForeignQualifications#powershow
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