(Highly) Skilled workers are sought after around the
world:
From WSJ –
“Despite efforts of
non-English-speaking nations to attract high quality workers, almost 75% of the
total OECD highly skilled workforce in 2010 lived in the four main Anglo-Saxon
countries—almost 40% in the U.S. alone. Around 70% of engineers in Silicon Valley
and 60% of doctors in Perth, Australia, were foreign-born in 2010.
“The U.S. has
received an enormous net surplus of inventors from abroad, while China and
India have been major source countries,” the study noted. In the last third of
the 20th century, for instance, immigrants won 31% of all Nobel prizes—of whom
more than half of these were at U.S. institutions. It’s not clear
whether these trends will continue. Rising standards of living in developing
countries will curb the appeal of emigrating”