Skilled immigration to fill talent gaps: A comparison of the immigration policies of the United States, Canada, and Australia

Attracting and recruiting quality talent: firm perspectives

“…Firms which are unable to attract the best talents have issues with productivity and output. Firms in Lagos compete with global companies for their local talent and can easily loose the talent to countries like Canada, Australia and other countries open to immigrant of skilled talents (Marsh and Oyelere, 2018;Chand and Tung, 2019). Lagos has a high influx of fresh graduates and also concentration of experienced professionals.…”

Negócios étnicos e tecnológicos de brasileiros na Estônia: uma comunidade imigrante em formação

“…De um lado, há países (ou políticos) que defendem medidas mais rígidas de imigração, promovendo a discriminação étnica e gerando efeitos colaterais aos imigrantes, como o caso atual dos EUA e de alguns países europeus (como visto em Almeida et al, 2016;Schlueter, Masso, Davidov, 2018). Já de outro, defende-se o incentivo às políticas migratórias que buscam atrair mão-de-obra qualificada e com boa educação, sendo este o caso do Canadá (Kaushik, Drolet, 2018) e da Austrália (Chand, Tung, 2019), assim como o da Estônia (Mets, 2017).…”

Migrants, migration policies, and international business research: Current trends and new directions

“…Such educational disparities support ''brain drain'' claims by many home countries in the developing world and suggest that countries of the developed North have been effective in attracting skilled migrants. This may follow from host-country immigration policies Chand and Tung (2019) analyze in the special issue, from other non-policy factors in the host country, or most likely from some mix of both.…”

“…The articles in this special issue contributed insights on how these flows may vary due to, say, home-country diaspora engagement institution type immigration system points (Chand & Tung, 2019) or PPP design (Poliakova et al, 2019) enticing these flows, or broader social attitudes toward the migrant executives directing these flows (Kautto, 2019). They contributed insights on how these flows may vary due to host-country factors like migrant knowledge (Kunczer et al, 2019) or the conditions of migrant arrival (Christensen et al, 2019), maybe even the MNE stewardship (Reade et al, 2019), or the strength of professional purpose (Emmanuel et al, 2019).…”

“…The articles we curated for the special issue address these and other new or renewed MMP issues confronting IB executives and investors. They analyze IB research and practice implications of: a dramatic rise in the value of migrant remittances to and the number of migrant ministries in many developing countries ; an escalating battle for skilled migrants only a few developing countries are producing but many developed-country MNEs need (Chand & Tung, 2019;Emmanuel, Elo, & Piekkari, 2019); a change in the mix of migrants ''pulled'' to host countries by economic opportunity versus migrants ''pushed'' from home countries by conflict, violence, and persecution (Christensen, Newman, Herrick & Godfrey, 2019); a debate about how migrants influence the direction of FDI from their host countries (Kunczer, Lindner & Puck, 2019); a shift in home-country citizen attitudes that now treat migrants living abroad as role models rather than renegades (Kautto, 2019); a trend among MNEs operating in ''fragile states'' to hire and train refugees as hedges against political risks and demonstrations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Reade, Oetzel, & McKenna, 2019); and a growth in public-private partnerships between government-run investment development agencies offering financial incentives to attract inward FDI and non-governmental migrant community organizations able to identify firms abroad more likely to respond to those incentives (Poliakova, Riddle, & Cummings, 2019).…”