Employing Skilled Expatriates : Benchmarking Skilled Immigration Regimes across Economies

The Employing Skilled Expatriates indicators analyze the skilled immigration regime relevant for foreign direct investment across 93 economies to provide comparable information about this regulatory space. The indicators focus on restrictions that control the inflow of skilled immigrants (quotas); the ease of hiring skilled expatriates (time and procedural steps to obtain a temporary work permit, existence of online application systems, availability of a one-stop shop and fast-tracking option); and the existence of a path to permanent residency and citizenship as well as the existence of spousal work permits. As governments increasingly seek to attract foreign direct investment as a driver of long-term development, reforming the investment climate -- including the skilled immigration regime -- is one policy option to consider. This analysis shows a positive correlation between the Employing Skilled Expatriates index and foreign direct investment inflows. As measured by the Employing Skilled Expatriates index, there is room for economies with a need for skilled workers to improve their immigration regimes as one means of attracting more foreign direct investment. In Singapore and the Republic of Korea, it only takes ten days on average to obtain a temporary work permit. In Honduras, the same process can take up to 22 weeks. The global average to obtain a temporary work permit is eight weeks. The process is the fastest in the East Asia and the Pacific region where it takes five weeks. With 11 weeks, the processing time in the Middle East and North Africa region is the slowest.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	De Smet, Dieter
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-11
Subjects:	ALIENS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BRAIN DRAIN, BRAIN GAIN, BUSINESS SCHOOL, CALCULATION, CAREER, CLIMATE, CO, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, DEGREES, DIASPORA, EFFECT OF IMMIGRANTS, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EXPATRIATE WORKERS, EXPATRIATES, EXPENDITURES, FACULTY OF LAW, FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE, FOREIGN WORKERS, FOREIGNERS, GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS, HIGHER EDUCATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL FLIGHT, HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION, IMMIGRANTS, IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION LAW, IMMIGRATION POLICIES, IMMIGRATION POLICY, IMMIGRATION QUOTAS, IMMIGRATION RULES, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, LABOR EXPORTING COUNTRIES, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKET, LITERATURE, MIGRANT, MIGRATION FLOWS, MIGRATION POLICY, MOBILITY, MULTILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, OPEN ACCESS, PAPERS, PEER REVIEW, POPULATION INCREASE, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, RETURN MIGRATION, SCHOOLS, SILICON, SKILLED EXPATRIATES, SKILLED INDIVIDUALS, SKILLED LABOR, SKILLED MIGRANTS, SKILLED MIGRATION, SKILLED PERSONNEL, SKILLED WORKERS, UNEMPLOYMENT, VISAS, WORK PERMIT, WORK PERMITS, benchmarking, regulatory reform, investment climate, FDI,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18524119/employing-skilled-expatriates-benchmarking-skilled-immigration-regimes-across-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16905
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