Concluding Remarks and Policy Implications

Abstract

The chapter summarises the main findings on high-skilled immigration policies from 1990 to mid-2015 and highlights the book’s key contributions. It emphasises some of the opportunities and challenges high-skilled immigration presents for countries. In addition, the chapter discusses several policy implications that flow from the research. For instance, governments are increasingly under pressure as the competition for ‘the best and brightest’ is evident in both OECD and non-OECD countries. Governments have to respond accordingly to the ‘global competition for talent’. For example, they have to reconcile at times competing preferences of capital and labour and balance staying internationally competitive while maintaining the protection of workers especially prevalent due to the economic crisis, as well as maximising benefits but minimising costs.