Immigration Policies and the Global Competition for Talent

Dr Lucie Cerna is an analyst in the Directorate for Education and Skills at the OECD, Paris, France, and Research Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK. Previously she was a Lecturer at Merton College, University of Oxford, UK, and Assistant Professor in Global Challenges at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORY.- Chapter 1. High-Skilled Immigration in Context.- Chapter 2. High-Skilled Immigration Policies and Coalitions.-  Chapter 3. Measuring High-Skilled Immigration Policies.- PART II: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, SWEDEN, THE UK AND THE US.- Chapter 4. Unions, Employers and the State in Germany and Sweden.- Chapter 5. The Lobbying of Associations in the UK and the US.- Chapter 6. The French State and (Silent) Labour Market Actors.- Chapter 7. Political Representation of High-Skilled Workers.- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks and Policy Implications.

“Cerna’s work is a solid contribution to the growing, but fragmented, body of research on high-skilled immigration policies that have generally examined profession or country-specific developments, or issues such as gender and family formation. … This is a refreshing approach to studying high-skilled immigration, which has long been dominated by scholars working in the field of management studies. … it offers lessons for deepening our overall understanding of migration regulation.” (Meng-Hsuan Chou, Migration Studies, Vol. 7 (1), 2019)