http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_
id=1416410 The Economist argues for some
controversial approaches to immigration, including the idea
that “countries should give preference to those who seem to
integrate most readily.”
Two other difficult issues:
- Why do we not allow two equivalent individuals (an Australian journalist and an American journalist, say) to swap countries, leading to a net gain of two satisfied individuals? (That is, allow unlimited migration between countries with the same income per head—actually this is suggested.) It is because not many Australian journalists want to swap jobs with Indian journalists?
- How much is lost (in human capital) when an educated individual leaves a poor country for a rich one?
A companion article contains some interesting figures and graphs. 23:40
