Estimating Emigration of Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers in the United States

摘要

The report builds on the earlier work on foreign-born scientists and engineers, Michael G. Finn, Foreign National Scientists and Engineers in the U.S. Labor Force, 1972-1982, Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Associated Universities, June 1985 (ORAU-244). The earlier work estimated the proportion of foreign students who stay in the U.S. to work after receiving science or engineering degrees from a U.S. college or university. The report addresses the stay rate of immigrants who come here with foreign degrees and the long-term stay rate of immigrants who earn U.S. degrees. The report provides a useful supplement by estimating emigration rates during the 1980s for nearly the entire stock of foreign-born scientists and engineers who were employed in the United States in 1981 or 1982.